An Informed Mind Quotes

#1. We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

Timothy Keller

#2. Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Salman Rushdie

#3. How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

James Stalker

#4. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Samuel Johnson

#5. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

Jane Austen

#6. Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

Sam Keen

#7. the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#8. I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.

John Owen

#10. You're very dangerous," he informed her, taking a bigger bite. "Very devious. If you had enough money and a small army, you could take over the whole country. And no one would care because you are so damn cute."
"Of course they wouldn't mind. I'd let them eat cake," Hayley replied, grinning.

Dahlia West

#11. Informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I do not say the mind gets informed by action, - bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

William Mountford

#15. Even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?

David Sedaris

#16. One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Sylvia Plath

#17. As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

Matt Chandler