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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke

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

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

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

Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Robert Orben

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

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard