Quotes About Minds

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.

But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods

You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.

Why should a biological species that is innately magnificent in its smallest details issue forth with blank minds and blank consciousness which have nothing innate in them?

This is already true now, when you are still occupied, each with the other's presence, in an exclusive fashion. Imagine how it will be in a little while, when ghosts that do not meet will frequent your minds, accompanying the encounters of your bodies tested by habit.

If we don't look at the context, we can easily come to all sorts of conclusions that don't align with what the Bible is actually saying. The Bible is an ancient book written across centuries, and we must use the minds God gave us to examine these claims against the Bible to see if they are true and accurate in the way they are presented.

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

In a way, 'Lost,' or maybe TV in general, is a kind of a contract between the writers and the viewers. And the actors - of course we have a great deal to do with it - but where the drama's made, sort of where the meeting of minds is, is between those two parties: writers and audience.

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.

No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.

This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.

las cosas terrenales, cuando se han apoderado de las mentes de los hombres, apartan bastante lejos sus corazones de Dios".

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.