Thought Provoking Quotes

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

Intelligence and genius

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears...

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down...we just need a push.

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing?

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??