Minds Quotes

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Small things affects small minds.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Great minds sink alike, right?

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Hungry people have especially clear minds.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.