Quotes About Minds

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.

You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else. This going headlong for things is a mechanistic view, and people in general aren't machines. They have minds of their own-mostly peasant minds, at their easiest when they are in the familiar furrow.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Men's minds need a simple truth, an answer which delivers them from their questions, a gospel, a tomb. The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety.

A genre becomes universal when it seduces minds which have no reason to embrace it.

The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their lives a meaning.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies

Strong as the propensity to imitation is among civilized men, we must conceive it as an impulse of which their minds have been partially denuded. Like the far-seeing sight, the infallible hearing, the magical scent of the savage, it is a half-lost power. It was strongest in ancient times, and IS strongest in uncivilized regions.

In greatest minds' great thoughts earth's passed; betimes Fatal, foreshape the future.

Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.

Consequently our idea of the Deity is that of the archetype of our own minds.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

The things I believe in now are grace and the power of human connection to change hearts and minds and the importance of civil dialogue.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

Our minds are small because they are faithless,' I said to myself. 'If we had faith in God our hearts would share in His greatness and peace for we should not then be shut up in ourselves, but would walk abroad in him

We mortals are changeable. Alas, I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed. Right, we are prone to vacillate and let opportunity escape.

That women differ from men, that heart and intellect are subject to the laws of sex, I do not doubt. But ought this difference, so essential to the general harmony of life, to constitute a moral inferiority? And does it necessarily follow that the souls and minds of women are inferior to those of men, whose vanity permits them to tolerate no other natural order?

Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.