Quotes about Minds

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way."
-Carl Jung

"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
-Sophocles

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
-Charles Dickens

"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds."
-William Shakespeare

"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced."
-William Shakespeare

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
-Rene Descartes

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
-Rene Descartes

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
-Alexander Graham Bell

"Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read."
-Ausonius

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
-Walt Disney

"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
-Desiderius Erasmus

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
-Malcolm X

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
-Ronald Reagan

"The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds."
-Jawaharlal Nehru