Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 3

Thought is the fountain of speech.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

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

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

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

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

As was his language so was his life.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Information is not knowledge.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Words are loaded pistols.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

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