Quotes about Minds

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Clifford Stoll

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Ernest Hemingway

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

Ausonius

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

Desiderius Erasmus

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

John Buchan

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffer

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Those who don't believe in you won't change their minds when you succeed.

Joe Brown and David Brown

Some had high grades and were just bored out of their minds. They found no connection between the classroom and life and their career aspirations.

John Bridgeland

Anything you can do to keep their minds off of their feet.

Carly Proper

Those who would poison the minds of our young people that were not going to take it anymore.

Jennifer M. Granholm

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Dodie Smith

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.

Alexis De Tocqueville

We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We knew we were going to come up here and pound them. We're going to give the mall we've got and that¹s what we did.

Brian Fitzgerald

Despite the fact that we are dealing with an issue that is top on the minds of Kenyans, we have done our best to abide by the rules especially on content.

Uhuru Kenyatta

We came out with a lot of intensity, but Hampton made some adjustments and got a pretty good feel for what we were doing. We just wanted to come out and play well, and give people a chance to get their minds off everything else.

Steve Haren

That has never even crossed our minds or come up. From day one, I met his wife; I became friends with her.

Stacy Keibler

There is no doubt in our minds there is an extraordinary value for the preservation of this. It is not for everybody. There is clearly a premium to pay for it.

Alan Scimeca

It's a simple question, and that question has penetrated the minds of voters.

Haruo Shimada

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Johannes Brahms

In our minds, we've always been a good team.

Ryan Mcdonagh

We think the jury was denied access to a substantial number of facts that would have changed their minds.

Sandra Benson

Having got the Japan issue out of the way that's going to be the next issue on people's minds.

Richard Marwood

I'm just so proud of these girls. A loss like that would have devastated a lot of teams, but (we) made up their minds that we weren't going home without any hardware.

Leo Kennerly

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

Li Ka shing

We have a ton of seniors coming back. It's in the front of all our minds, that this is what we want to do. We all have the same goal.

Kevin Keane

Dr. Seuss is so creative, so inventive — I consider him the Shakespeare of children's literature. He opens up young children's minds in a way that can be a key to creative language use.

Pam Marshall

When we make our minds up, we can play with anybody.

Michael Strahan

We haven't changed our minds about anything. The rules of the park are the rules.

Sharon Stewart

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent.

Chip Hanlon

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Richard Nelson Bolles

Last year was definitely in the back of our minds. We had to finish it out this time.

Sascha Hansen

The valley we call Death, isn't really that different from much of the rest of the desert West. It's just a little deeper, a little hotter and a little drier. What sets it apart more than anything else is the mind's eye.

Richard E. Lingenfelter

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Terry Ryan

Clearly the sort of weapon we believe was used in this attack is known to be in the hands of certain groups. They will be uppermost in our minds.

Alan Fry

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Dr. Paul Tournier

If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.

Imtiaz Ahmed

It just didn't seem like we were even going to be asked to be a part of it. So it made no sense in our minds to try and go back to a house that we had been driven out of.

Justin Horowitz

"So this is America. They must be out of their minds." -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.

Ringo Starr

As a senior, it feels like you accomplished a big task. Now the happiness has moved on to accomplishing something else. We know we have the team that can go as far as we put our minds to go.

Lindsey Jones

The last federation, the Yugoslav Federation, is still in our memory, in our minds, and we certainly hope that this one will be better than the last one.

Janez Drnovsek

We had our minds set on it all year. I'm glad I could go out and accomplish these goals.

Ryan Lochte

We look for people with open hearts, open minds and open homes. Other than that, there's no pattern.

Lucy Hilburn

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Sir Walter Scott

This is a big milestone for Mountain View. The importance of this match in our minds was huge.

Brian Hanna

Verona, in our minds, was San Juan.

John Guare

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

James Nichols

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

You are following the money. The great minds and the capital will move to the places that are the most aggressive, most active and where the growth rate is highest.

Tim Draper

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

In general I think she's an admirable person, but I don't think she's shown that she's one of the better legal minds in the country.

Stuart Taylor

George loved people. He didn't care what they did. He was always fascinated by their minds.

Ginger Davis

The girls are excited to play, and on any given day, anything can happen. The girls have a goal set in their minds, and when they have that, they do everything they can to reach it.

Osama Hamid

I can't explain how great this game was. I can't give enough credit to my boys. They played out of their minds. They really wanted to win this game.

Tom Malinosky

We tried to key on them but they both just played out of their minds. They are just that type of players; you can't afford to give them anything.

Brendan Jones

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Titus Livy

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Ellen Goodman

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

Don Cherry

A win this weekend would really help the team's confidence. It would reaffirm in their own minds that they are among the best, not just in the conference but out of conference as well.

Dee Stevenson

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

George louis Leclerc De Buffon

An Indian never crossed our minds.

Lori Murray

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

I think that's a scenario that we're unlikely to encounter in the years ahead but it's something that is in the back of our minds.

Roger Gibbins

We face a battle for hearts and minds sometimes with animal rights groups who have figures of their own and polls of their own.

Phil Jenkins

It should be big. It should be foremost in our minds - and taking care of our valley. We shouldn't take it for granted.

Mary Noone

I would say gently and respectfully, they need to make up their minds. They need to fish or cut bait.

Chris Vance

We've got to keep on piling up the points. If we can break records that's even better but we must always keep our minds on the next game, the most important one.

Rafael Marquez

This story about that makes absolutely no sense. This is a story likened to a fairy tale in their marijuana-soaked minds.

Dion Custis

It's, at the moment, only a concept, ... Basically until this season, Matt's been a starter. We're looking at the best way to maximize how we use him. We haven't made up our minds yet.

Aidan O'brien

Indeed, when people lose their cell phones, it's like losing their minds. And they forget who their friends are because they have lost their cell phones.

James Katz

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.

Claude Levi strauss

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

I'm doing this because I know these issues are in the minds of the public. It's not an underhanded shot at him.

Richard Barrera

If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Angelina Grimke

We felt the media would be one of the best things we could do to put it in the forefront of people's minds. Just so he would not be forgotten and in the event he ever had a chance to hear news he would know his family and his government were trying to get him back.

Dwight Landry

The one thing that everybody kind of has tucked into the back of their minds is that if there is some sort of event that affects a mall between now and Christmas. It's hard to say whether another plane crash like this is going to have much of an impact yet.

Richard Baum

When people are in grief, making something like this is the last thing on their minds.

Jacquelyn Quiran

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

James M. Barrie

Everyone in the industry agrees it's an amazing spot, ... It was the great location that made up our minds that we could do this.

Bill Johnston

As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.

Dick Lebeau

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

We wanted to jump on them early, especially with the weather the way it was. Five innings makes an official game, so that is why we needed to get the early lead. But then, we decided to just put the weather out of our minds.

Tommy Bailey

When her mind's in the right place, she's one of the best in the state.

Mikaela Rehak

Instead of being restricted by the boundaries of a small town, this approach will broaden their minds.

Xu Xiangyang

We are talking about changing people's hearts and minds. That's something you can never put a price tag on.

Nancy Howell

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Stephane Mallarme

We might change some minds.

Niles Eldredge

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill