Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 11

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fool

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Hard Work

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• A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

  Shelby Foote

  Educational, Book, Reading

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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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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• 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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• May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Live Life, May, Easy

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• Words are loaded pistols.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Pistols, Existentialism, Loaded

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thesaurus, Hunts

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• This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Exercise, Growth

  Martin Luther (1943). “Works of Martin Luther”

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Quoted in Observer, 15 Jan. 1950

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• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Library

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Library

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