Top 100 Quotes About Provoking Thought
#1. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell
#2. Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
Stanley Schmidt
#4. What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#5. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Pythagoras
#6. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.
Mackenzi Lee
#7. Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
C. Nzingha Smith
#8. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....
Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil
Amna Iqbal
#9. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.
Fiona Paul
#10. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#11. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.
Steven Cuoco
#12. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#13. The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing
#14. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.
Lance Taubold
#17. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Tom Robbins
#18. We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
Larry Page
#19. Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
Steve Pavlina
#20. I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.
Judy Dater
#21. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis Chan
#22. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it
Bradley Bowman
#23. It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
Haruki Murakami
#24. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Criss Jami
#25. 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??
Anand Neelakantan
#26. Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.
Steve Pavlina
#27. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.
Shelley D Terrell
#28. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#30. Man sees what he knows, not what he sees
Short story, The Mallard
S.L. Northey
#32. It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?
Elizabeth Chandler
#33. If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.
Rainbow Rowell
#34. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#35. Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#36. We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#38. I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.
Michelle Monaghan
#39. One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
Elie Wiesel
#40. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
Flannery O'Connor
#41. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Dan Poynter
#42. It is uncertain where Death will await you;
there expect it everywhere.
Seneca.
#43. God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
Elie Wiesel
#44. Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.
Renae A. Sauter
#45. Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
Richard Feynman
#46. Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)!
Shay Dawkins
#48. Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.
Trina Paulus
#49. Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?
Buffi Neal
#50. Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#51. I fell in love, and she fanned my flames. They spread to soon, Quickly and uncontrollably. I had finally found the one willing to catch fire, side by side, while the world watched us burn.
J. Raymond
#52. Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. 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.
Chinua Achebe
#54. I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.
Camron Wright
#55. Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.
S.L. Northey
#57. 'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
Jane Ridley
#58. To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?
Carroll Bryant
#59. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#60. No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#62. Sometimes when we're standing at the edge, we don't need anyone to talk us down ... we just need a push.
Buffi Neal
#63. When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.
Ariana Carruth
#64. There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
Noah Hawley
#65. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.
Robyn Schneider
#66. My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#67. Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.
D.B. Harrop
#68. We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#69. Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.
Paul Scheuring
#70. If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#72. Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.
Katey Sagal
#73. It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#74. Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.
Dorothy McFalls
#75. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
Libba Bray
#77. She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. 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
#79. Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap
Tom Holt
#80. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
Wil Zeus
#81. For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.
Jermaine Watkins
#82. And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid - the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs - was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.
China Mieville
#83. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#85. 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.
Brad Bird
#86. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#87. At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?
Buffi Neal
#88. A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?
Derek Landy
#89. His heart ... responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.
Lauren Groff
#91. And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.
Alexander Maksik
#92. Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.
Tom Franklin
#93. 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.
Kim Harrison
#94. Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.
Cherie Priest
#95. Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.
Maggie Nelson
#96. Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
#97. A worst thing is thinking about health who show interest in non-vegetarian
Raghava
#98. The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.
Donald Thomas
#99. In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
Hans Kung
#100. It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.
Jim Rohn
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