Minds Quotes
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.
No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.
Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.