Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 6

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

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

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

What a man does not know is greater than he.

What we have is a data glut.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

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

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

I keep six honest serving men.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

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