Quotes About Minds

a number of prominent scientists believe our minds are quantum instruments. That consciousness itself is a quantum event.

Oh yes, there are racists everywhere. Hatred is universal. There are no geographical barriers to narrow, bitter little minds.

As preachers of the gospel spread throughout a society, and new life comes to more and more of the population, the preconditions for an open society are being established. The more the law of God is written on hearts and minds, which is what happens under the new covenant, the less necessary it is to have standards of public decency urged upon us from billboards.

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

they're fucking up minds they do not own.

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said.

Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

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

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

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

Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.' A myth we requicken in our minds and our lives brings creative juice, for every living myth "bears within it, undamaged, the seed power of its source.

My days among the dead are past;Around me I behold,Where'er these casual eyes are cast,The mighty minds of old.

It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.

To return, then, to the potentially problematic issue of the effortlessness with which we read minds: a flagrantly wrong, from our perspective, interpretation, such as taking tears of grief for tears of joy, or thinking that Mr. Newlin raises his hand to point out that the sky is falling, is still effortless from the point of view of cognitive psychologists because of the ease with which we correlate tears with an emotional state or the raised hand with a certain underlying desire/intention.

The only messages from the dead that I'd heard had sounded as if they came from creatures that had lost their minds.

women, they have minds and souls as well as just hearts. they've got ambition and they've got talent as well as just beauty. and i'm so sick of people sayin that love is all a woman is fit for. i'm so sick of it.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

We would all be together on the journey then, our destination the village at the end of the road where people gamble day and night but never lose their money, eat but never fill their stomachs, drink but never leave their minds.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears