Top 82 Different Minds Quotes
#1. Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
#2. In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
Lafcadio Hearn
#3. To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.
Lucy Larcom
#4. I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
A.S. Byatt
#5. Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.
Elizabeth Green
#6. To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive utterly variant figures in the same being.
A.E. Coppard
#8. I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.
Juliette Binoche
#9. People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.
Ian McEwan
#10. Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
Roger Zelazny
#11. One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.
Daniel Tammet
#12. All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
Margaret Fuller
#13. Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.
Mark Akenside
#14. The [sun and moon] provide us with different-appearing worlds, which in turn form our two different minds; the one that reasons and the one that dreams.
Christine Valters Paintner
#15. MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.
Matt Haig
#16. Well, the actual function of the brain, not so sure yet. There's a lot of different theories about it, but when you talk about psychologically in your brain, a lot of people with insomnia, though not all, report that they can't turn their minds off.
Shelby Harris
#17. I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.
Jeff VanderMeer
#18. As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
George Henry Lewes
#19. I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.
Kellan Lutz
#20. Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.
Richard Dawkins
#21. objectivity arose from subjectivity - the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This
Richard E. Nisbett
#22. I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.
Russell Simmons
#23. You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."
Renata Adler
#26. If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
Vincente Minnelli
#27. Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
Bob Dylan
#28. Why can't she see that no two people
are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds
are all different.
Only our dreams share
this same desperate need
to rise
and soar...
Margarita Engle
#29. 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.
George Stigler
#30. If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to the season. Emotions sometimes bring dynamism and significant change to our lives, but we must never be led around by them.
Ilchi Lee
#31. People think computers are different from people because they don't have minds, even though, in the Turing test, computers can have conversations with people about the weather and wine and what Italy is like, and they can even tell jokes.
Mark Haddon
#32. isn't it very odd how our minds can make things up? We think we see one thing, but really we've seen something entirely different." She
Marty Wingate
#33. In a way it wasn't so different from art. It bridged the void between minds, let us feel something together, ten tokens per minute. Sometimes I thought, Money isn't filthy or cold. It's the only way we can be human with each other anymore.
Leah Raeder
#34. In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.
Samuel Adams
#35. My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.
Amit Kalantri
#37. The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
Robert Barry
#38. The door of wisdom is always open for those who let their minds taste so many different ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
Flannery O'Connor
#40. Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.
Nina Dobrev
#41. We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..
We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..
Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a different reality.
M. Cochet M.
#42. Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as long as it thinks the other minds are different from it.
Thiruman Archunan
#43. Any divine communication from God to man is called revelation. Revelation comes in many different forms. All true revelation comes by the power of the Spirit of God. By this power, the Almighty speaks to our minds and hearts (D&C 8:2).
Brent L. Top
#44. I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin -different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business.
Bernard Stonehouse
#45. To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.
David Bellos
#46. Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other
Jonathan Haidt
#47. Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.
Joan Lingard
#48. One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.
Hallie Burnett
#49. I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
Jason Alexander
#50. Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.
Katherine Anne Porter
#51. From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.
John Ortberg
#52. The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.
Temple Grandin
#53. Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
Steven Rodney McQueen
#54. Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
Cormac McCarthy
#55. Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
Caleb Carr
#57. Same eyes, different perception.
Same ears, different judgement.
Same hands, different skills.
Same feet, different destinations.
Same minds, different reasoning.
Same hearts, different feelings.
Same souls, different actions.
Same lives, different experiences.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#58. Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.
Neil Gaiman
#59. I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.
Howard Zinn
#60. The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
Andre Maurois
#61. what you put out there and what people take away are two totally separate things. People's minds process things in diverse ways. Everyone lives in different worlds, which is sort of sad but also has potential if you can work out how to turn it to your advantage.
Ann Morgan
#62. The world is rational and creative. It's a wonderful mystery for our minds to discover and celebrate . God's everywhere and we are all different. That's the beauty of it-the sheer diversity. What a tapestry to enjoy.
Adam Williams
#63. For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.
Jonah Lehrer
#64. Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.
Greil Marcus
#65. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
Horace Silver
#66. This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
Rachel Joyce
#67. Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Theodore Zeldin
#68. 'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.
Scott Bakula
#69. Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
Joshua Waitzkin
#70. [Our] minds are molded in many different ways - often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things - the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read - have a great effect on us.
Billy Graham
#71. The developmental psychologist Paul Bloom has shown that our minds were designed for dualism - we think that minds and bodies are different but equally real sorts of things - and so we readily believe that we have immortal souls housed in our temporary bodies.
Jonathan Haidt
#72. They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.
Eric Ambler
#73. The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
W. H. Auden
#74. How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.
Tom Robbins
#75. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
Simon Sinek
#76. History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [ ... ] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
Earl Nightingale
#78. Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going
Marianne Williamson
#79. People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race. It would be a good thing if all people were treated equally and justly and not be discriminated against because of race or religion or anything that makes them different from others.
Rosa Parks
#80. I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
Ving Rhames
#81. Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
H.G.Wells
#82. We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.
Lewis Thomas