Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving

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

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

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

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
Ringo Starr

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

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
Eileen Caddy

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
Brian Molko

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

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

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi