Top 200 Thought Provoking Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”

— Charles Bukowski

152. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

153. “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

154. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

155. “Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

— Charles Dickens

156. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

157. “Libraries are our friends.”

— Neil Gaiman

158. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

159. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

160. “Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.”

— Seth Godin

161. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.”

— Chief Seattle

162. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

— William Blake

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

— Bruce Lee

164. “The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”

— Francis Chan

165. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde

166. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

167. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

168. “It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

169. “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

170. “True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity.”

— Francis Chan

171. “Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

172. “Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.”

— Francis Chan

173. “It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God’s enemies.”

— Martin Niemöller

174. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

175. “As a man is, so he sees.”

— William Blake

176. “To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.”

— Charles Bukowski

177. “If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words.”

— Henry Mintzberg

178. “Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”

— Patrick Ness

179. “We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.”

— Larry Page

180. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Stephen King

182. “Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.”

— Francis Chan

183. “When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

— Chinua Achebe

184. “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

— Virginia Woolf

185. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

186. “Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”

— Edward Abbey

187. “And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.”

— Leo Tolstoy

188. “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

189. “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

— Saul Bellow

190. “A house that has a library in it has a soul.”

— Plato

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

192. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

193. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

194. “A disciple is a disciple maker.”

— Francis Chan

195. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

196. “We don’t see profit as a blind instrument.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

197. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

198. “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”

— C.G. Jung

199. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

200. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— C.G. Jung