Quotes on Thought Provoking

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

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

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

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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 there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

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 it is stupid.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.