To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.