Minds Quotes

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.