deep thoughts quotes

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

I’m constantly thinking.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

To live is to think.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.