Quotes About Changing Minds

#1. I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

Billy Porter

#2. Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

Mike Cohn

#3. There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Mark Twain

#5. No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.

Val McDermid

#7. You will discover that essential wellbeing is not found by calming our minds or by changing our thoughts or attitudes, but actually by shifting out of our chattering minds and into a freedom that is already available.

Loch Kelly

#8. Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing. As we danced in the night, Remember how the stars stole the night away.

Maurice White

#9. The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older ... then it is very hard to change our minds

Howard Gardner

#11. Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

Peter Rollins

#14. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

#15. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Sigmund Freud

#16. We must praise God or live in unreality and poverty. We cannot merely believe in our minds that he is loving or wise or great. We must praise him for those things - and praise him to others - if we are to move beyond abstract knowledge to heart-changing engagement.

Timothy Keller

#17. I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#18. Women are always changing. We change shape. We change our minds. We change our names when we marry. That morning, I woke up and saw in the mirror that my lips had changed and I wondered what was going to change next. -

Chloe Thurlow

#19. Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

Lauren Lola

#20. In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

Lewis Thomas

#21. The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

Gary Bauer

#22. The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Tony Robbins

#23. Those who can't change their minds can't change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ryan White

#25. Books record knowledge,
preserve wisdom,
and disseminate information;
nourishing minds, changing lives.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

S. Kelley Harrell

#27. A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once

Orhan Pamuk

#28. Simply by changing our thoughts, we can sow the seeds of happiness in the garden of our minds.

Debasish Mridha

#29. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?

Sharon Salzberg

#30. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

George Arliss

#31. You don't bring about major political change simply by changing people's minds. It's their interests that need to be assailed, not their opinions.

Terry Eagleton

#32. You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Stross

#33. Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.

Donald L. Hicks

#34. Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.

Willis Harman

#35. If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

B.J. Novak

#36. We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

Daniel Kahneman

#37. Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will change hearts of other men [only] by changing our own hearts and speaking bravely.

Albert Einstein

#38. I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Bernie Sanders

#39. Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

S.I. Hayakawa

#40. We need to change the leadership model in the world. That's my passion in life: changing hearts and minds about leadership.

Bob Vanourek

#41. Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

Karen Cushman

#42. Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.

Benjamin Franklin

#43. I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

Feist

#44. Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

Ken Kesey