Quotes on Thought Provoking

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

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.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

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

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

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.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.