Thought Provoking Quotes

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.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

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.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

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

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

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.

As a man is, so he sees.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

Libraries are our friends.

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

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.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

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

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

Libraries are the future of reading.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

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

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

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Thought is the fountain of speech.