Thought Provoking Quotes

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

~ George Friedman

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

~ Monica Ali

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words, they fled to find solace and redemption in the dark places of the world.“They were exiled into darkness so their own light might one day return to illuminate the world. They went underground, literally and metaphorically, so that their haven became the hidden places far beneath the feet of their persecutors.“Thus was born the Incunabula: it was forged by fire and persecution, to preserve and protect until the book might rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of demise.

~ Mark Cantrell

Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.

~ Mackenzi Lee

A real life doesn't ask you to stop and move back, it always says Move On.

~ Myra Yadav

I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.

~ Petra Remes

It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth.

~ D.b. Harrop

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.

~ Richard Feynman

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

~ Todd William

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

~ Gloria Steinem

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

~ Ariana Carruth

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

~ Tom Hiddleston

It is easy, and therefore uninspiring, to love within the norms of acceptance and society. Other than ones own heart, there is no great risk involved; it's all very status quo. The same is tired, but what's outside-the-norm is captivating and gets under people’s skin, pushing their buttons, making them think and revealing their depth as a person, or their lack thereof. It's love against obstacles that inspires the most – a love that faces and ultimately endures through challenges, hardship and ridicule that is courageous and triumphant.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

~ Carroll Bryant

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

~ Shelley D Terrell

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

~ A.t. Baron

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

~ Richard Feynman

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.

~ Richie Singh

Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in No-Till by Basil Pearl.

~ Basil Pearl

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

~ Isvari

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery.

~ Rohinton Mistry

If your strengths don't, then your weakness's will soon define you.

~ Sachin Kumar Puli

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

A brainstorm about the difference between rain and brain: a b, although both are juicy like water... but if it rained in the brain would that mean that ocurred a brainwash? and if so what would be the cure for that?? That's rough for sure. But if the rain plays mainly in the land would it land instead of fail to fall?? What's the meaning of it all? i'm a brainiac with some brainy thoughts..

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena

~ David Gallie

Keep your heart and mind open, Taylor. Don't make any rash decisions that you might regret later on. Sometimes things in life aren't as clear as we would like them to be, especially in the beginning. When the time is right, you'll know it. Just don't burn the bridge before you ever get the chance to cross it.

~ Rose Wynters

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some words were made up without any thought given. Nice is one of them. Nice has no meaning. Nice gets thrown out there to replace something meaningful. Take Goodreads and turn it into Nicereads. This goes to show that nice provides no justice.

~ J.r. Rim

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

~ Ransom Riggs

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

~ Milan Kundera

Only with calmness can you control your emotions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.

~ Audrey Greathouse

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

~ Melina Marchetta

In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side. With it's understanding we would all want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of.

~ Jonathan Bingham

In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of.

~ Anonymous

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

~ Zack Love

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tock tick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshipers of the sun's passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight.

~ Harlan Ellison

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

~ Natsuo Kirino