Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 11

• Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Library

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

  "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Hard Work

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• I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fool

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• 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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• 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 the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Library

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

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• A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Kids

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• 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 proportion.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophical, Size, Life Is

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

  Marc Jacobs

  Innovation, Process, Radical

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• 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

  Quality, Human Nature, Feeling Stuck

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Youth, Wonderful, Seventeen

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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  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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Humans, Visible, Human Beings

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• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "Theaetetus" by Plato,

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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

  Planets, Our Time, Our Lives

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• We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Blind, Profit, Instruments

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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

  Events, This Generation, Generations

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• My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Way, World

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Lying, Infinite, Investment

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Principles, Violence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Beautiful, Past, Promise

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• We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Planets, Connected, Humans

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