Thought Provoking Quotations

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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

Libraries are our friends.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

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

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.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

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

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

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.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

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

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

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

What a man does not know is greater than he.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

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

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

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.

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.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

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.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

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.

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

To learn is to be young, however old.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

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.

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

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.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

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

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

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

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.