Quotes About Minds

Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves...far distant in time...speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

I discover that there are other minds in understanding what other people say and do.

A natural counterpart to the theory that minds constitute a world other than 'the physical world' is the theory that there exist ways of discovering the contents of this other world which are counterparts to our ways of discovering the contents of the physical world.

Oggi in Italia gli animi sono schierati in due opposti campi; da una parte i fascisti, dall'altra i loro avversari, democratici di tutte le tinte e tendenze, due mondi che si escludono reciprocamente. Ma la grandissima maggioranza degli italiani rimane estranea e sente che la materia del contrasto, scelto dalle opposizioni, non ha una consistenza politica apprezzabile ed atta ad interessare l'anima popolare.

I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.

As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate with people and touch their hearts through 'Dangal,' perhaps, eventually, I can help change their minds.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.

TV is a medium that can be used to spread a positive message but people are spreading bogus ideas in people's minds.

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

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as along as it thinks the other minds are different from it.

No sophism is too gross to delude minds distempered by party spirit.

My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.

We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot come the musical revolution (Michael Bolton, U2, Bryan Adams, and, surprise surprise, Genesis were tucked in behind them. Berry wanted to shoot The Beatles, but I pointed out that someone had already done it.