Quotes About Minds

Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds.…

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

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts, said Mr. Wilde. You are speaking of the King in Yellow, I groaned, with a shudder. He is a king whom emperors have served. I am content to serve him, I replied.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Yes. Isn't it … silly … how … upsetting … just thinking can be?" "It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

Sam grudgingly acknowledged the role of consciousness, but argued this, too, was based on unexamined assumptions, dependent on an unfounded faith in the collapse of quantum indeterminacy, and we debated the many minds theory, hidden variables, multiverses, and materialism until the coffee went cold and I'd managed to forget I was anything but pure consciousness myself.

Technology provides the potential, by use of well-produced books, film, television, and interactive computer-controlled systems of various kinds. These, and other developments, provide many opportunities for expanding our minds-or else for deadening them. The human mind is capable of vastly more than it is often given the chance to achieve. Sadly, these opportunities are all to frequently squandered, and the minds of neither young nor old are provided the openings that they undoubtedly deserve.

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.

He also saw human nature as insatiably curious and reserved his highest praise for minds that created "schemes or systems of truth."11

It was Rockefeller, after all, who urged Harper to pay top dollar for America's best academic minds.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal.

All human minds are not the same, that intelligence differs not only in degree, but to some extent also in kind.

The love of servitude cannot be established except as the result of a deep, personal revolution in human minds and bodies.

And what birds! widewinged and beautiful, all those serene thoughts and faiths and emotions that only visit minds that have humbled themselves to quiet.

The older revolutionaries sought to change the social environment in the hope (if they were idealists and not mere power seekers) of changing human nature. Then coming revolutionaries will make their assault directly on human nature as they find it, in the minds and bodies of their victims or, if you prefer, their beneficiaries.

But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.

I read books, not minds, Guido.

minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed