Quotes About Minds

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

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

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.