Thought Provoking Quotes

331 Thought Provoking quotes by 158 unique authors

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… — Albert Einstein
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. — Chinua Achebe
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying… — Daniel Handler
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. — Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in… — Albert Einstein
Libraries are our friends. — Neil Gaiman
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. — Bruce Lee
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. — Voltaire
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. — Albert Einstein
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. — Albert Einstein
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. — Alberto Manguel
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of… — Douglas Adams
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein
Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. — Marc Jacobs
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. — Oscar Wilde
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. — Arthur C. Clarke
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. — Albert Einstein
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… — Albert Einstein
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein
Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work... — Albert Einstein
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote

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