Thought Provoking Quotes

Thought Provoking Quote of the day

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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.

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.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

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.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

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.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Libraries are our friends.

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

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.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data really powers everything that we do.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

Libraries are the future of reading.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

I have no fear, I have only love

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.