Minds Quotes

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.