Minds Quotes

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.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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.

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.

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

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.