Minds Quotes

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.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

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.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.