Best 533 quotes in «thought provoking quotes» category

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

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.

I keep six honest serving men.

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

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.

Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.  Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.  Read this book.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

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.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

The time for change is now.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

To learn is to be young, however old.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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..

A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. It doesn't matter what kind: the blooded Atolla with its flashing siren lights, the frilly flower hat variety, or the near-transparent moon jelly, Aurelia aurita. It's their pulse, the way they contract swiftly, than release. Like a ghost heart-- a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide. Jellyfish don't even have hearts, of course-- no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. But watch them for a while. You will see them beating.

A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

Accept who you are. Don’t leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that’s how the light shines through. - Rhydian

A good way to ascertain what matters to you is to imagine the following: You wake up in the morning to the realisation that you have but a day to live. How would you want to spend that day? Who would you want to spend that time with?

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

A little training in philosophy can also help us build robust critical defenses and immunize us against the wiles of pretentious wafflers and snake-oil salesmen.