Top 24 Thought Provocative Quotes
#1. It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
Lyall Watson
#2. I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Michael Phelps
#3. 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
#4. Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.
Julio Olalla
#5. Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.
William Zinsser
#6. If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
Gaylord Nelson
#7. What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Jean Cocteau
#8. But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
Robert Falcon Scott
#9. Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Alvin Toffler
#10. Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.
Mother Teresa
#11. Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.
John Dieterich
#12. If an angel should fly from heaven and inform the saint personally of the Saviour's love to him, the evidence would not be one whit more satisfactory than that which is borne in the heart by the Holy Ghost.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.
Joseph Bruce
#14. Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
Janet Lembke
#15. 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
#16. Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things?
Mhairi McFarlane
#17. I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
Marc Maron
#19. The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.
Laozi
#20. I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.
Seungri
#21. Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
Michael Ramirez
#23. 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!
Alfre Woodard
#24. There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.
Charlaine Harris
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