I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giacomo Casanova

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Marcus Garvey

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
Earl Nightingale

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
William Glasser

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy

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

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke