Top 200 Thought Provoking Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

102. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking

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103. “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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104. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

105. “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Universe Quotes, Future Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

106. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Science Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

107. “Fear is the mind-killer.”

— Frank Herbert

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108. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

— Paulo Coelho

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109. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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110. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

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111. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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112. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

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113. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes, Choices Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

114. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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115. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Faith Quotes

116. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

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117. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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118. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

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119. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

— George Orwell

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120. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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121. “We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”

— Carl Sagan

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122. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

— Albert Camus

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123. “Information is not knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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124. “There are no facts, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

125. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Inspirational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

126. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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127. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

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128. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe

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129. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

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130. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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131. “Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Quotes About Trying

132. “The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.”

— Pythagoras

133. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

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134. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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135. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

136. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

— Arthur Koestler

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137. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Mind Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

138. “The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”

— Chinua Achebe

139. “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Existentialism Quotes

140. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Awakening Quotes

141. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

— Chinua Achebe

Also featured in: Quotes About Stories

142. “Education is freedom.”

— Paulo Freire

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143. “Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”

— Carl Sagan

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144. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

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145. “Words are loaded pistols.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

146. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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147. “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes

148. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Intelligent Quotes

149. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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150. “The time for change is now.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Vision Quotes, Progress Quotes