Minds Quotes

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

BookRetirementMindsWriteLast

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

Paul Tournier

BrainyMindsMoreSubtleOur

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.

Joe Henderson

DayWeekMindsHimUsMeans

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Frank Zappa

ChangePeopleYouWillMindsAgree

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

Sean Brady

LiveWorldPerceptionAbortionMinds

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

Jenny Holzer

FunPeopleMindsWanderingAround

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Casey Stengel

HateYouMindsSecretUpSuccessful

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

MindsOpenFunctionOnlyLike

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

John Clayton

GreatQuestionsNewCreationMinds

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Edwin Louis Cole

KnowledgeMenBuildingWorthMinds

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

GodEyesGrassWillMindsOpen

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Mel Brooks

GreatComedyLongBadAcceptMinds

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Edward Thorndike

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I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Richard Linklater

MindsAlwaysSeemArtistsCriminals

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

John Henry Newman

KnowMindsIgnorantUpAnythingOur

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Walter Duranty

PeopleThinkProblemWishesMinds

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Nicolas Malebranche

LiveFindEarthMindsSameDivine

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Robert Orben

MeMindsTakeOffOurTV

Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

Yakov Smirnoff

MindsAlwaysComediansNotesHitting

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy de Gourmont

SimpleLieIdeasReachMindsWithin

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

TimeInterestingYouKnowMinds

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

ChangeActionPowerfulMindsReal

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Marshall McLuhan

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We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

TryingMonkeyUnderstandMindsNever

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