Minds Quotes
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I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.
Abderrahmane Sissako
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When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Steve Jobs
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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
Galileo Galilei
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Victor Hugo
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
Lisa See
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I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn Monroe
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This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.
Gary Marcus
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In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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A utopian future where we shed our bodies and upload our minds into computers and live forever, virtual, immortal, disembodied. Heaven for hackers.
Brian Christian
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....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.
Charles Dickens
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It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.
Anna Karina
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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Blaise Pascal
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.
Galileo Galilei
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You will see us growing the business organically as hard as we can, but equally keeping our minds open as to whether we can grow inorganically as well.
Arun Sarin
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
Honore de Balzac
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The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.
Sallust
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
Chogyam Trungpa
