Top 100 Thought Provoking Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Dan Poynter
#4. 'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
Jane Ridley
#5. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Dave gazed at Melanie like Professor Brian Cox eyeing up a particularly thought-provoking mountain range.
Dave Turner
#10. Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. In their thought-provoking book Focus, researchers Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson argue that people lean toward being "promotion-focused" or "prevention-focused" in their aims.
Gretchen Rubin
#12. There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
Billie Piper
#13. Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
Jason Reitman
#14. As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
Lily Cole
#15. I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Arjun Rampal
#16. Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!
B.A. Gabrielle
#17. I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.
Ricky Gervais
#18. Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,
Nomi Prins
#19. Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
Lizz Winstead
#20. People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
Benjamin Percy
#21. Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
Ben Hunt
#22. 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
#23. For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#24. Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
Jamie Hyneman
#25. I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Spike Lee
#26. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Vicki M. Taylor
#27. I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'
Chris Bauer
#28. The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
Martin Freeman
#29. We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
Jonathan Sumption
#30. Great Question Are:
Quintessential
Unforgettable
Expressive
Stimulating
Thought Provoking
Impactful
Open Ended
Neutral
Significant
Farshad Asl
#31. 'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
Reid Scott
#32. Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.
Tariq Ramadan
#33. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#34. 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
#35. Intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
Stanley Schmidt
#36. I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
William Mapother
#37. I think it's meant to be thought provoking, said Cinder. Iko frowned, looking unprovoked. They
Marissa Meyer
#38. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
#39. Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.
Harvey MacKay
#40. 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.
David M. Brown
#41. I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
Charlie Kaufman
#42. I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.
Thomas Keller
#43. Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.
Jesse Kellerman
#44. I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins
#45. 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
#46. A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead.
Alain De Botton
#48. What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#49. 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
#50. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.
Mackenzi Lee
#51. Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
C. Nzingha Smith
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#55. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.
Steven Cuoco
#56. 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
#57. The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
Larry Page
#63. Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
Steve Pavlina
#64. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis Chan
#65. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it
Bradley Bowman
#66. 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
#67. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Criss Jami
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.
Shelley D Terrell
#71. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#73. Man sees what he knows, not what he sees
Short story, The Mallard
S.L. Northey
#75. It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?
Elizabeth Chandler
#76. 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
#77. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#78. Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#79. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell
#80. We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#82. One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
Elie Wiesel
#83. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
Flannery O'Connor
#84. It is uncertain where Death will await you;
there expect it everywhere.
Seneca.
#85. God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
Elie Wiesel
#86. 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
#87. Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
Richard Feynman
#88. Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)!
Shay Dawkins
#90. Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.
Trina Paulus
#91. Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?
Buffi Neal
#92. Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#93. 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
#94. Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?
Carroll Bryant
#100. 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
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