Quotes on Thought Provoking

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.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

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

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

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.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

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

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.