Quotes About Wandering Minds

#1. We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

John Calvin

#2. I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

J.C. Ryle

#3. I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

Dennis Prager

#4. The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

Peter Kreeft

#5. Unperformed experiments have no results.

Asher Peres

#6. In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

Rachel Simon

#7. Dolphins may even be able to name each other with signature whistles. But their society may nevertheless be one of an overlapping network of minds, wandering linked through a transparent ocean.

Carl Zimmer

#8. The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

Thomas Hobbes

#9. You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

Ron White

#10. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#11. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#12. I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

J.J. Abrams

#13. Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Emily Dickinson

#14. The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Tim Jackson

#15. At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Norman Cousins

#16. It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Jenny Holzer

#17. Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#18. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.

David Michie

#19. The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.

Nikki Rowe

#20. We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn't interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any.

John Holt