Top 200 Thought Provoking Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

— Swami Vivekananda

52. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

53. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

54. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

— T. S. Eliot

55. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

56. “What you resist, persists.”

— C.G. Jung

57. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

58. “If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

59. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

— Swami Vivekananda

61. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

62. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

63. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

— Mark Twain

64. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

65. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— C.G. Jung

66. “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

67. “Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

68. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— C.G. Jung

69. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

70. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

71. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

72. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

73. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.”

— Simon Sinek

74. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

75. “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

76. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

77. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

— Eckhart Tolle

78. “To Love is to reach God.”

— Rumi

79. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

— Jim Rohn

80. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

81. “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

— Alan Watts

82. “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

— Socrates

83. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

84. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

85. “To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.”

— Richard P. Feynman

86. “There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

87. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

88. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

89. “However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

— Swami Vivekananda

90. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

— Isaac Newton

91. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

92. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

93. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

94. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

95. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

— Aristotle

96. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

97. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

98. “A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.”

— Publilius Syrus

99. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

100. “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

— Carl Sagan