Provoke Thought Quotes

#1. My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

Dwight Rhoden

#2. My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

Casey Affleck

#3. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.

Marcus J. Borg

#4. Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Jordan Peele

#5. The purpose of a lecture should not be to impart information. There are books, libraries, nowadays the internet, for that. A lecture should inspire and provoke thought.

Richard Dawkins

#6. It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

Dash Mihok

#7. It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Robert Heilbroner

#8. It's adequate, Miss Clark. Though

Nora Roberts

#9. Christians can grow in the grace of Christ, with knowledge of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

James Arthur

#11. God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.

Mike Tyson

#12. My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.

Lana Del Rey

#13. Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

C.S. Lewis

#14. You didn't do anything to her, did you?"
"Nothing that would provoke her to flee." Except ruin her for any other man. And offer her a marriage of the sort she found appalling. And desire her with an intensity that made his throat close up at the thought of her gone.

Sabrina Jeffries

#15. Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Michael Fassbender

#16. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

#17. Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

Eric Cantona