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Mind Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
- The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
- With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise…
- All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
- Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel…
- It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the…
- Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
- If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is,…
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle