Quotes with minds

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
  • We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
  • Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
  • When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
  • What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
  • Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
  • Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    ― Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Orison Swett Marden Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
    ― Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • Percy Ross A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
    ― Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    ― Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    ― John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
    ― Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    ― Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Marley None but ourselves can free our minds.
    Source: Redemption Song
    ― Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    ― Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Ba Jin The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
    Source: A Battle For Life
    ― Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Casey Stengel The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
    Source: Common Ground News
    ― Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Horace What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 'Frank and explicit', that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    ― Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    ― Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Buddha A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
    ― Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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