Minds Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Truth, Longing

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

Love, Alone, Crazy

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

Money, Men, Worst

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Spiritual, Judge

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Story, Filled, Absolutely

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

Greatest, Capable, Virtues

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

Through, Learn, Makes

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck

Person, Him, Cannot

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Men, Power, Government

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

Friendship, Anger, Opinion

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Thinking, Thoughts

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal

Place, Speak, Write

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Play, Weak, Mighty

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler

Clothes, Bodies

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

Age, Long, Healthy

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Kevin Kelly

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

Success, Matter, Chance

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Greatest, Confusion

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

Truth, Often, Loved

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Rather, Trouble, Wishes

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana

Confusion, Order, Chaos

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Fear, Why, Reason

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand

Great, Power, Humanity

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Mia Hamm

Team, Again, Leave

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

Time, Great, Live

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

Change, Words, Two

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne

Mind, Others, Speak

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

Great, Simple, Style

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

Others, Often, Vice

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