Thought Provoking Quotes

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

No man however great is greater than his people

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

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.

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

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

As was his language so was his life.

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

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

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

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.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

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.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

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

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

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say

A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

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.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.