Minds Quotes

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.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

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.

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.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.