Browsing Topic Best Thought Provoking Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Words are loaded pistols.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

If one can’t be happy, one must be amused.

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

To learn is to be young, however old.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It’s a responsibility to be shared by all.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies – in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria – where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division’s there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

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.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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

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.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy’s gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.