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Quotes About Minds

Gothos walked into the heart of his city, to where the Jaghut who ruled collectively were all gathered. Among them, to be sure, there were great minds, and many who still held to the ideal of civilization. But then Gothos ascended the central speaker's dais. He began his oration, and when, at last, he was done, he was met with silence. On that day, the Jaghut civilization ended. And in the days that followed, Gothos was named the Lord of Hate.
~ Steven Erikson
Their power comes, as Monok Ochem said, from layers. Stone shaped into tools and weapons. Air shaped by throats. Minds that discovered, faint as flickering fires in the sky, the recognition of oblivion, of an end…to life, to love. Eyes that witnessed the struggle to survive, and saw with wonder its inevitable failure. To know and to understand that we must all die, Trull Sengar, is not to worship death. To know and to understand is itself magic, for it made us stand tall.
~ Steven Erikson
Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.
~ Steven Erikson
Infinity lies at the heart of so many of our dreams and fears and unanswerable questions: How big is the universe? How long is forever? How powerful is God? In every branch of human thought, from religion and philosophy to science and mathematics, infinity has befuddled the world's finest minds for thousands of years. It has been banished, outlawed, and shunned. It's always been a dangerous idea.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
The sea dragons remained a tantalizing myth, and if they had risen from the deep to touch the hearts and minds of two young intiates, they had once again sunk into dreams
~ Storm Constantine
We could not enter the soulscape, but we could move, disembodied, through the real world. The combined essence of our minds soared up through the tiers of Taparak, the ancient trunks shadowy to our altered awareness.
~ Storm Constantine
Our greatest conflicts and barriers exist in our minds and in the way we deal with our fears. It is pointless even to try to control that which cannot be controlled. What we can manage is how we approach and respond to our uncertainties.
~ Sue Black
I had an amazing experience being on a hit show for Showtime, doing 'Queer as Folk', and impacting things socially, like helping change hearts and minds. It's such a big chapter of my life.
~ Robert Gant
My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
~ Pardis Sabeti
When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.
~ Eileen Pollack
Our freedom and safety are the ultimate goals, and it is men who prevent us from achieving those goals. But not all men, says Mejal. Ona clarifies: Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of the men's hearts and minds.
~ Miriam Toews
Our freedom and safety are the ultimate goals, and it is men who prevent us from achieving those goals. But not all men, says Mejal. Ona clarifies: Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of men's hearts and minds.
~ Miriam Toews
Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of men's hearts and minds.
~ Miriam Toews
O ato de empacotar ideias e opiniões intelectuais é uma atividade à qual algumas das mentes mais brilhantes se dedicam com grande diligência.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds
~ Carl Zimmer
Mr. Aguilar belonged to that race of privileged minds who are always right.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we? Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
~ Jim Crace
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
~ Amos Oz
We've always been influenced by some of India's greatest minds.
~ Ajay Piramal
When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
~ Ted Turner
One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.
~ Daniel Tammet
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
~ Warren Beatty
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
~ Drake