Top thought provoking Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of thought provoking quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

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To learn is to be young, however old.
- Aeschylus
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Image of Gavin Newsom
Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
- Gavin Newsom
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Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level
- Brad Bird
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Image of Steve Pavlina
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.
- Steve Pavlina
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I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.
- Steve Pavlina
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Image of Joan Rivers
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
- Joan Rivers
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Image of Robert McAfee Brown
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.
- Robert McAfee Brown
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Image of Martin Niemoller
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.
- Martin Niemoller
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Image of Chrysippus
Thought is the fountain of speech.
- Chrysippus
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Image of Max McKeown
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
- Max McKeown
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Image of Paul Sloane
The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
- Paul Sloane
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Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.
- David D. Glass
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Image of Dan Poynter
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
- Dan Poynter
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Image of Chinua Achebe
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.'
- Chinua Achebe
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Image of Nomi Prins
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
- Nomi Prins
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Image of Paul Scheuring
Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.
- Paul Scheuring
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Image of Hans Kung
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
- Hans Kung
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Image of Oscar Wilde
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
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Image of Seneca the Younger
As was his language so was his life.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Steve Pavlina
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.
- Steve Pavlina
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Image of Elie Wiesel
If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.
- Elie Wiesel
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
- Elie Wiesel
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One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Francis Chan
A disciple is a disciple maker.
- Francis Chan
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Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
- Francis Chan
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
- Francis Chan
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It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.
- Francis Chan
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Image of Arthur C. Clarke
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Image of Anne-Marie Slaughter
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Image of Rasheed Ogunlaru
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Image of Lizz Winstead
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
- Lizz Winstead
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It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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The time for change is now.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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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.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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