OSmith February 29, 2020 0 comments

Quotes That Make Us Think

Books Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
– Haruki Murakami

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
– William Styron

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
– Cassandra Clare

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
– Steven Spielberg

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
– Paul Sweeney

Education Quotes

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
– Bill Vaughan

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Tomorrow is my exam, but I do not care because a single sheet of paper cannot decide my future”
– Thomas A. Edison

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”
– Steve Irwin

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
– Mark Twain

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

Motivational Quotes

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
– Lou Holtz

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou

“All dreams are outside of our comfort zone. Leaving that comfort zone is a price we must pay to achieve them.”
– John Maxwell

“Success is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
– Simone de Beauvoir

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.”
– Michael Phelps

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
– Brian Tracy

Time to Think

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”
– Robin S. Sharma

“Instead of judging people by their past, stand by them and help to change their future.”
– Unknown

“Every colour I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr King because he made us like each other and respect each other.”
– Lena Horne

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”
– Conrad Hall

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare

“There is no other door to knowledge than the door nature opens; there is no truth except the truths we discover in nature. “
– Luther Burbank

“Whatever happens, remember: this is a bad day, but not a bad life.”
– Unknown

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”
– Alan Watts