Quotes - Prithvi Ravi (Madras, 25, India) Showing 1-30 of 95

#1

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3588 likes

#2

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

2280 likes

#3

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3411 likes

#4

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

2320 likes

#5

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
― David Lynch, Lost Highway

200 likes

#6

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
― David Lynch

182 likes

#7

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

tags: curiosity

770 likes

#8

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney Company

tags: creativity, curiosity, inspirational

1514 likes

#9

“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

tags: curiosity

293 likes

#10

“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, curiosity, george-r-r-martin, tyrion-lannister, wall

2315 likes

#11

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

3775 likes

#12

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

3946 likes

#13

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

1522 likes

#14

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

tags: hunger

1369 likes

#15

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2360 likes

#16

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

2108 likes

#17

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3546 likes

#18

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

261 likes

#19

“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”
― Dan Zadra

tags: worry

228 likes

#20

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, science

866 likes

#21