Quotes About Thought-provoking

the academic world, the intellectual world, where always to be antagonizing people and challenging whatever they said was apparently looked on with admiration.

There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.

The best kind of entertainment is the kind that also makes you question something or think outside the box or live another life. Those are the stories that I'm drawn to.

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

Even at her worst she made you think, and that's worth something in a person.

Jesus Christ in a miniskirt.

Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and it makes you think, period. Claiming anything more than that is dicey. Grand visions of the future were more prevalent in the golden-age science fiction, but all fiction is a reflection of the current times. As science moves more quickly, the horizon of science fiction tends to recede closer to the present.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

We believe that we can use interactivity to create meaningful games. Games with emotions and virtual actors telling you something. Resonating with you as a human being, giving you food for thought. We don't need to deliver messages or whatever, just need to create a moment in time that will leave an imprint in your mind.

A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

The thought was horrible, yet fascinating.

La bellezza è raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza è sempre un po' inquietante.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

She comes out with things, you know, that keep you pondering for hours. There's really something quite Pythian about her!