Top 100 Two Minds Quotes
#1. One will in two minds, one heart in two bodies, and two bodies in one flesh.
George Pettie
#2. What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.
Eva Brann
#3. A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
David Mamet
#4. Love is two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
#5. They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
Khalil Gibran
#9. The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
#10. Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#11. Two legs walk better than one;
two eyes see better than one;
two feet walk better than one;
two hands work better than one;
and two minds think better than one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. One mind equals one advantage;
two minds equals two advantages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
Napoleon Hill
#14. Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.
Richard O'Connor
#15. Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this
two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject.
Francisco X Stork
#16. In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Daniel Goleman
#17. Storytelling requires two minds. The writer draws the basic outlines and adds some detail. It's never complete, however, until the reader fills in that outline with the colors and experiences of his or her own life.
Rysa Walker
#18. Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Jasper Fforde
#20. I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
Alan Bradley
#21. People who logically examine their relationships cannot sustain them. Two bodies, two minds, two emotions can never fit perfectly.
Sadghuru
#22. It was a marriage of two minds, of two ... spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites tilt toward the sun.
Amor Towles
#23. What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
John Keats
#24. 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
#25. As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it [a book], and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction [of a story].
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford
#27. Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
Vernor Vinge
#28. Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
William J. Clinton
#29. Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
John Ortberg
#30. I inhaled deeply, feeling of two minds about the benefits and detriments of smoking. On one hand, tobacco robbed me of my wind, but on the other, it gave me something to do while the devil was tempting me!
Walter Mosley
#31. I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other
Henry David Thoreau
#32. It was a marriage of two minds, of two metropolitan spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites tilt toward the sun. And
Amor Towles
#33. When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.
Hollis Frampton
#34. A material thing is first of all "the only bridge of communication between two minds." The bridge is a passage, but it is also distance maintained. The materiality of the book keeps two minds at an equal distance, whereas explication is the annihilation of one mind by another.
Jacques Ranciere
#35. According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.
Frederick Lenz
#36. 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
#37. Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.
Roger Ebert
#38. No finer, greater gift in the world than that ... when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one.
Homer
#39. Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
Darlene Craviotto
#40. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#41. When two great minds work in unison, a great deal is accomplished, but there is usually a lot of noise.
Lloyd A. Green
#42. It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
John Frederick Boyes
#43. At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men's minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons. Even
Leo Tolstoy
#44. People change for two main reasons:
either their minds have been opened or
their hearts have been broken
Steven Aitchison
#45. 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
#46. Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare
#47. We had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our minds had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake.
Leylah Attar
#48. Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
Ramakrishna
#50. 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
#51. I could see the combinations and permutations flutter through their minds. This was Boulder. It could easily be two moms. Two dads. A dad, a mom, and an orangutan. Three Amish hipsters and a transgendered Aboriginal mermaid.
Bill Konigsberg
#52. I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!
Elle Fanning
#53. There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.
Tony Dungy
#54. 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
#55. No. No way. I don't love Aren. I can't because, damn it, I'm not one of those girls, the ones who have two men chasing after them but can't make up their minds who to choose. If you can't decide who you love more, you don't love either of them enough.
Sandy Williams
#56. It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
Zadie Smith
#57. And yet, a fissure, a split world, whose significance was yet obscure, had revealed itself to me. in the dark split were seeds of dim, unknown knowledge, without labels, a neuronal web of pre-thinking.
Paul Valent
#58. I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders ... to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's mouths, minds, and memories? And how well did our congregation sing? Our role is simply to be an accompaniment to them as they sing.
Keith Getty
#59. That's why Professor Little, the consummate introvert, lectures with such passion. Like a modern-day Socrates, he loves his students deeply; opening their minds and attending to their well-being are two of his core personal projects. When
Susan Cain
#60. And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.
Dan Brown
#61. Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.
Augustus William Hare
#62. We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
William Osler
#63. 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
#64. An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
Charles Williams
#65. Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
Frances Wright
#66. I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
Aaron Belz
#67. Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#68. There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them.
Mao Zedong
#69. As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other.
Leo Tolstoy
#70. Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers ... seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.
Paul Fussell
#71. There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can't trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can't accept the truth of each other.
Anuj
#72. Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
Madame De Stael
#73. Relationships were for that reason utterly mysterious, they took place between two subconscious minds, and whatever the surface trickle thought was going on could not be trusted to be right.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#74. I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam ... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds.
Taslima Nasrin
#75. Every Adventure Has a Back Story. When we look at our past relationships, often there are one or two we may tend to go back to in our minds, and we see them through the magic of the seven veils.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#76. Men ought not to labor at the same time with their minds and with their bodies; for the two kinds of labor are opposed to one another; the labor of the body impedes the mind, and the labor of the mind the body.
Aristotle.
#77. 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
#79. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes
the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.
Jack Kerouac
#80. Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth being ever seen by two persons alike ... What Pierre chiefly desired was always to transmit his thought to another exactly as he conceived it himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust
#82. This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
Will Carling
#83. You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill Lee
#84. Did my two friends lose their minds? We'd gone from hugging besties to face-slapping frienemies and now horny girls on the prowl. WTF.
Avery Aster
#85. He could have killed me for the blunder - which really wasn't my fault - but I was lucky , and he gave me another chance. The two officers who questioned him were also incredibly lucky for not having had any idea who it was they'd been questioning.
Floyd C. Forsberg
#86. They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.
Tania James
#88. We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.
Haruki Murakami
#89. This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Neal Stephenson
#90. This put her in the possession of two guns. I Love Lucy does Criminal Minds.
Jill Shalvis
#91. The pulse of lapping water; slow waves invisible in the dark; two entangled minds; two lives; two beating hearts.
D.J. MacLennan
#92. For that's what sex is about ultimately - communion, ultimate communion, the fusing of two beings into one, their feelings, emotions, hearts, minds and souls, and whether it's done with kisses and caresses or whips and chains, it doesn't matter in the end.
Elliot Mabeuse
#93. But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors.
Hilda Van Stockum
#94. Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean De La Bruyere
#95. These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
John Locke
#96. There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#97. The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
Edith Wharton
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
Nick Bostrom
