Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

I believe people can move things with their minds.
Justin Timberlake

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
George Whitefield

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.
Hilary Duff

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Anne Rice

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
Steve Forbes

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Alfred North Whitehead

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Giorgio Vasari

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
Billy Joel

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.
Rob Schneider

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean de la Bruyere