Quotes about Minds
discuss ideas,
average minds
discuss events,
small minds
discuss people."
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Votes: 2
Blaise PascalEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 2
Marcus GarveyGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 2
Eleanor RooseveltMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Votes: 2
Franklin D. RooseveltTo stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. Votes: 2
W. E. B. Du BoisNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 2
Benjamin DisraeliLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Votes: 2
Washington IrvingOld minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. Votes: 2
John AdamsSecond-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople always complain about their memories, never about their minds. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. Votes: 0
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTimorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. Votes: 0
Jean Francois Paul de GondiNarrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldInsults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonTwo quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyerePeople who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own. Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Votes: 0
William Samuel JohnsonNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneWe're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature. Votes: 0
Alison Hawthorne DemingStrange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonUnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. Votes: 0
William Pitt, 1st Earl of ChathamYou know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time. Votes: 0
Anna Deavere SmithBig minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardWe cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism Votes: 0
Charmaine Smith LaddYou must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds. Votes: 0
Barbara MarciniakThere is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellAn educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleExperience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMinds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.
William Carlos WilliamsIt is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...
William Ellery ChanningThe greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
Agnes Baker PilgrimCommonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
Johann Kaspar LavaterMinds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
Francois de La RochefoucauldDo not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds
Paul the ApostleAt a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
William Lyon PhelpsFor young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
Honore de BalzacA new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.
Ludwig von MisesYou cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
Patricia WentworthMechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
William LangewiescheYou write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
Arthur PlotnikSometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.
Cassandra ClareSince everything is a reflection of our minds,everything can be changed by our minds.
Gautama BuddhaI found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
James A. GarfieldWe measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
Joseph JoubertJust as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
Nicolas Malebranche... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
Quentin TarantinoHope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
Samuel JohnsonThe mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...
J. K. RowlingWe have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Lawrence FerlinghettiWhy is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
Lewis CarrollThe wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.
Monty RobertsHere you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.
Ronald ReaganWhat comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
Aiden Wilson TozerAnd the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Alfred Lord TennysonThe image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Edward de BonoAs a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius CaesarBorders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
Thor HeyerdahlThere are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws
Charles Brockden BrownDon't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
Madeleine L'EngleWe listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.
Michael JacksonThe biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
Amit AbrahamOur minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
Federico FelliniYoung people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.
Jim StynesThe trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
Joanna RussI think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
John Henrik ClarkeSome superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
Joseph JoubertIt is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
Mary MacLaneLove is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
Robert GreeneFame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
Anna Brownell JamesonAfrica is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
Elspeth HuxleyIdeas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking.
Malala YousafzaiI pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
Thomas JeffersonThe opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
Thomas JeffersonI'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
William GoldingOnly in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Helen KellerGod give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
J. G. HollandScience had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean RostandI think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.
John D'AgataFinding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.
Mata AmritanandamayiThe time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.
Nelson MandelaBirth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
Ram DassGo after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
Aaron LevieTry to make things that can become better in other peopleâs minds than they were in yours.
Brian EnoIt's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
Charlaine HarrisAll of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of timeâthat's why we suffer.
Dainin KatagiriThe Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
e. e. cummingsThe sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg C. LichtenbergGod made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
J. I. PackerFaith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
John CalvinThe same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
AristotleOur minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.
Charles R. SwindollGreat changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.
Herbert ReadAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
John Stuart MillTalking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
Sheryl SandbergJazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
Cab CallowayWhat would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThings don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
Douglas CrockfordThe image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
Elizabeth BibescoWe're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.
Ellen DeGeneresFruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.
Guru Gobind SinghI think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.
John KricfalusiDistance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
Samuel JohnsonWe have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.
Sterling W SillEven the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.
Swami VivekanandaOur bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
Walter RaleighCats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
Walter ScottWhat I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.
Ann CoulterI do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
Conor OberstAccording to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThere's no doubt in our minds we can play with the best teams in the country - if we play well.
Gregg MarshallI think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
Isabelle EberhardtVery often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
Jonathan IveThe happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
Kate MortonPrejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
Lydia M. Child...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
StendhalWhen we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
Anne LamottWhat was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
Bharati MukherjeeAll beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.
BuddhadasaNature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.
Jaggi VasudevThe key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.
Jill SteinIt is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
Luther BurbankIt is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNeither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
Ron ReaganTo minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
Thomas MalthusA dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldGod is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.
Beth MooreContentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Charles L. AllenOne of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
Honore de BalzacYou can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.
Jeff AtwoodI can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
Jilly CooperOur thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
Ram DassWe're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!
Ram DassLibraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
Richard ArmourEnter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.
Virginia AxlineIf we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
Dallas WillardWe can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
David BowieOne dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy
Eiichiro OdaAnd in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.
Jonah GoldbergA segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
Malcolm XIt is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
Marshall McLuhanWe sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
Pema ChodronI don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
Ray RomanoThere are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
RumiBut before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
Adrienne RichScience is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
Anthony S. FauciSome Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.
Chevy ChaseThe minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
Claude BernardOur minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar
Dean CavanaghUmpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing
Dmitry TursunovIt is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPeace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.
John F. KennedyWithout credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
John P. KotterMinds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
Ludwig WittgensteinWe never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
Roger L'EstrangeThe primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
Adolf HitlerAwaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole FranceDemocracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
Charles LindberghThis iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund SpenserOrdinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper FfordeHabit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria EdgeworthNever accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.
Mary BlakelyOnly the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.
Sigmund FreudArt lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
Will Durant