Provoking Quotations | Page 3

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

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

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

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Information is not knowledge.

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

Intelligence and genius

One sin another doth provoke.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

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

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

No man provokes me with impunity.

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.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Originality provokes originality.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

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.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith,

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

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

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

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

As a man is, so he sees.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

I keep six honest serving men.