Minds Quotes
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Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
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I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
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It's been forever since we have had everybody here, everybody healthy and everybody ready to go. Before this game I talked to the girls and we had a meeting of the minds and I really didn't know what to expect but the deal was we needed to come out and play our hearts out.
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Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
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I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
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Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.
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If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.
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We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.
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Why is it that a connection that seems to have nothing to do with looks—because it feels so much deeper than that, like a connection of minds and souls—is actually entirely dependent on looks?
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You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.
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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.
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Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
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Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
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God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
