Minds Quotes
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar -
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
Aristotle
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May our minds be granted greater comprehension so that our hearts may be filled with deepened affection.
Bruce A. Ware -
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde -
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.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a child.
William Quan Judge -
Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
Sophocles -
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
Brian Patten
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I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
Bette Greene -
Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.
Humphry Davy -
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
Bonnie Friedman -
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
Charles Dickens -
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
Niklas Luhmann -
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.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.
Nancy Etcoff -
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
Eqbal Ahmad -
What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.
Eyvind Kang -
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.
Charles Dickens -
…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity.
Elizabeth Cunningham -
We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.
J. M. Roberts
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Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
Marge Piercy -
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds.
Elspeth Huxley -
If we could read the minds of animals we would find only truths.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.
Heber J. Grant