Quotes About Mind

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Great actions speak great minds.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.