Food For Thought Quotes

Most popular food for thought quotes

May my silence become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke quote.
May my silence become more accurate.

silence

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln quote.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

enemies wisdom

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller quote.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D. Roosevelt quote.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

thinking

If they made diving boards
six inches shorter -
think how much sooner
you'd be in the water.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. - Aldous Huxley quote.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

the world

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

atheism religion atheist

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

temptation

There are two kinds of light—the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber quote.
There are two kinds of light—the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.