Quotes about minds

Angela Davis -

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Shannon L. Alder -

The problem was never my mind it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.

Maeve Binchy -

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Adam McKay -

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Brigitte Bardot -

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Jimmy Iovine -

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.

Franklin D. Roosevelt -

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Samuel Adams -

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Desiderius Erasmus -

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Claude Levi-Strauss -

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton -

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

A.W. Tozer -

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Stephen King -

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Neymat Khan -

People with satanic minds are dangerous, kill them.

Bela Lugosi -

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Munia Khan -

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

Scott Stabile -

Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don’t even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell w

Erik Pevernagie -

When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)

Martin Guevara Urbina - Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

Sunday Adelaja -

There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding

Jerry Bridges - The Pursuit of Holiness

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

Sidy Sidique -

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Munia Khan -

Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!

Munia Khan -

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

Deyth Banger -

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

Idowu Koyenikan - Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

Robert Dodson -

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

Kemi Sogunle -

What you feed your mind, will lead your life.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!

Sunday Adelaja -

when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people

Munia Khan -

Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

Diane Ravitch -

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Munia Khan -

Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

Daniel Willey -

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Amit Kalantri -

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Christopher Morley - The Haunted Bookshop

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Jay Woodman -

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

Simon Blackburn -

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

Christian D. Larson -

When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in improving yourself, so that you can do better and better work. That is how you are going to win in the race. Later on, those who tried to take advantage of you will be left in the rear. Remember, those who are dealing unjustly with you or with anybody are misusing their mind. They are therefore losing their power, and will, in the course of time, begin to lose ground; but if you, in

Travis J. Dahnke - Write like no one is reading

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Geoffrey Wood -

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Robin Silverman - Lemon Reef

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

Debasish Mridha -

In the wilderness of lifeHappiness is looking for youIn the jungles of dreams and desires,In the beauty of shrubs and flowers,In the span of sadness and kindness. In the deepness of hearts and minds.

Bert McCoy -

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Maxwell Grantly -

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

Elizabeth George - A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

Robert De Niro -

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.

Moonshine Noire -

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds.

Francine Rivers - A Voice in the Wind

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

George Eliot - O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...

Russell Shorto - Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Sunday Adelaja -

The only obstacle is the absence of the knowledge in our minds of the wisdom of God that is able to move any mountain

Criss Jami -

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Rasheed Ogunlaru - Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets

Debasish Mridha M.D. -

The best education makes our minds more fertile.

Jeffrey G. Duarte -

Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.

Shannon L. Alder -

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Zadie Smith -

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

Andrea Cremer - Invisibility

Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

Anthony T. Hincks -

Topica from Afar" discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities.Being written as you read.

Jay Woodman -

Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

François Magendie -

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.

Ron Baratono - The Writings of Ron Baratono

If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we don’t have enough to do.

Debasish Mridha M.D. -

We think when there is a stimulation to create thoughts in our minds.

Debasish Mridha -

All journeys begin in our minds and not on the road.

Katja Michael -

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!

Peggy Haymes -

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza -

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Rebecca McNutt - Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City

Every day it’s something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they’ll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peoples’ minds and all available careers being replaced by r

Plato -

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Theo Jansen -

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

Kate Winslet -

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

Josh McDowell -

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Ferdinand Marcos -

Little boys have amazing minds.

Thomas Jefferson -

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Jane Austen -

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Alexis de Tocqueville -

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Nita Ambani -

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Dorothy L. Sayers -

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Stevie Wonder -

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Ann Richards -

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Kanye West -

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Ovid -

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Will Self -

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

Ken Robinson -

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

James Hillman -

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

Quintilian -

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Edmund Burke -

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Abraham Lincoln -

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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