Quotes About Sharp Minds

#1. Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.

Enid Blyton

#2. That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Veronica Roth

#3. Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods.
We didn't keep watch on the world around us.
And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.

Darren Shan

#4. I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.

Aziz Ansari

#5. Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Pema Chodron

#6. Thus it happens that your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city honors; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered too sharp for common service. I

Washington Irving

#7. Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.

Joan Wehlen Morrison

#8. It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

George Eliot

#9. Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. A sword is sharp, but can conquer the body alone. The tongue is small, but can conquer hearts, minds and souls.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.

Debasish Mridha

#12. We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#13. The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

Muhammad

#14. The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms.

Stefan Emunds

#15. And at once he went on with his burden, as though afraid that he might already have said too much in this country where the past was sharp splinters embedded in men's minds and an ill-judged word a false step in the dark.

Richard Adams

#16. I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.

Marianne Curley