Top 100 Quotes About Minds
#1. What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.
Ann Coulter
#2. Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.
Sue Barker
#3. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.
Jen Wilkin
#4. The Charlie Manson that you've created, that's not me. That's only an illusion in your minds, it hasn't got anything to do with me.
Charles Manson
#5. In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."
Frederick Lenz
#6. Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
#7. When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.
Bryant McGill
#8. Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Marcus Garvey
#9. The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
#10. Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff ... Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
Robert Penn Warren
#11. With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life.
Debasish Mridha
#12. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
A.W. Tozer
#13. It is critically important that as we age and our bodies become less flexible our minds become more so.
Steven A. Segal
#14. You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.
Truth Devour
#15. It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.
Herbert Read
#16. No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
Shirley Jackson
#17. lecture notes are a way of transmitting information from the lecturer to the student without it passing through the minds of either one of them.
Kevin Carey
#18. With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
#19. Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
#20. From naive, lonely princess to winner of hearts and minds less than a month, Jasmine managed to make people feel at ease with her while still maintaining her rule as leader.
Liz Braswell
#21. Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#22. She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.
Jerry Spinelli
#23. Leaders today must have a strong vision and positive beliefs that support that vision. If they don't, their people will not only lose, but they'll be lost. When difficulties arise, their minds will not be prepared to stand up to the challenge.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#24. Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death
Peter Cochrane
#25. I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.
Celia Mcmahon
#26. If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.
Sun Tzu
#27. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Socrates
#28. If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#29. There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.
Tommy Mottola
#30. The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane.
Katie Couric
#31. We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God
Lysa TerKeurst
#33. People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.
Abbas Kiarostami
#34. If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.
Pema Chodron
#35. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
Francis Bacon
#36. The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
#37. Looking at the piles around us - they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.
Craig Johnson
#38. A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
Alexander Hamilton
#39. Nature is the hiding place of the sensitive souls and the elevated minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#41. They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds"
"But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again ...
Tom Wolfe
#42. There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
John Jay Chapman
#43. Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.
Galit Breen
#44. If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.
Tony Robbins
#46. We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers
#47. Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
#48. As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
Ruth Rendell
#49. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
Neil Gaiman
#50. I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.
Khloe Kardashian
#51. People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
Erwin McManus
#52. I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
Winifred Holtby
#53. High as winged imagination's flight is, Nothing it is able to conceive suffices. But minds uncommon, deep, preserved from arrogance, Have in the infinite infinite confidence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#54. As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.
Spike Lee
#55. Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
Fred Allen
#57. We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.
R.D. Laing
#58. Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.
Truth Devour
#60. There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda Leaming
#61. I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
Alexander McQueen
#62. Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#63. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
Arundhati Roy
#64. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.
Moira Katson
#65. Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
Lydia M. Child
#66. That the story of Atlantis - much beloved by psychics, UFO spotters, and conspiracy theorists - should have sprung from one of history's greatest minds struck me, to put it lightly, as a little odd. It was like hearing that
Mark Adams
#67. Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.
Natalie Goldberg
#68. Philippians 4:7: "And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Peace protects you.
Tony Evans
#69. People who agree with you already agree with you
you don't change peoples minds.
Neil Young
#70. Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so?
Christine Montross
#71. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
#73. It did cross our minds at one point.Actually it seemed to keep crossing them.Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
Ash
L.J.Smith
#74. Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
Guy De Maupassant
#75. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
Ramez Naam
#77. If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy
#78. Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin
#79. Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Read (or listen to on CD) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand This book is a fictional cautionary tale of what would happen if the most ambitious, innovative thinkers were no longer rewarded for using their minds to help advance society.
Steve Siebold
#81. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
#82. Small minds can never handle great themes.
St. Jerome
#84. An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.
George Gilder
#85. There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.
Les Standiford
#86. TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream "first amendment" and "freedom of speech". How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?
James Rozoff
#87. To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#89. The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.
And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.
Waylon H. Lewis
#90. It is such a simple formula: The more senses we bring to the moment, the more time slows, the more a catalogue of joyful vivid memories grows in our minds, the more life is filled with gratitude, and the more nourished our soul.
Brendon Burchard
#91. Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
#92. Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
Jill Scott
#93. Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
Honore De Balzac
#94. I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
Johnny Depp
#95. In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
Asa Don Brown
#96. Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.
Claudia Roden
#97. Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
Margaret Heffernan
#98. This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
#99. To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.
James Kenneth Stephen
#100. We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
Catherine Fahringer
