Best 533 quotes in «thought provoking quotes» category

Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.

Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I keep six honest serving men.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

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.

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

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 time for change is now.

To learn is to be young, however old.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.