Minds Quotes
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Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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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.
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People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
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There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.
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No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness.
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.
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So many of us have not attended to the deeper issues in ourselves; in our minds, our hearts, and in our external manifestations that keep love at bay. We instead concentrate on making a list of what we're looking for in another person.
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No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
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Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.
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You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.
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When we get our minds to playing defense, we can turn any game around. I hope we get to a more consistent level of play.
