Minds Quotes
Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.
I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
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.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.