Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 10

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Heart

  "The World As I See It (Letter to a Friend of Peace)". Book by Albert Einstein, 1949.

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• If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Reading, Moon

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.300, Princeton University Press

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• In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Philosophical, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, Know Yourself, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.33, Oscar Wilde

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Library

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Doe, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  Voltaire

  Journey, Hiking, Being Different

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Time, Children

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Yoga, Buddhism

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• Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sad, Grief, Reality

  Twitter post from May 27, 2012

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• Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.440, Penguin

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• Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Headache, Prescriptions

  "Anthills of the Savannah". Book by Chinua Achebe, 1987.

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

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• Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Innovation, Individuality

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.158, University of Arizona Press

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• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Library

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• 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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