Thought Provoking quotes
255 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace."
"We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'"
"Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself."
"The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought."
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"Silence is better than unmeaning words."
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
"As a man is, so he sees."
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
"A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday."
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one."
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."
"Libraries are our friends."
"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."
"Libraries are the future of reading."
"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
