Mindedness Quotes
85 quotes by 74 authors
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All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith,…
— John Angell James
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a…
— Lewis Mumford
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There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
— Aristotle
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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of…
— Confucius
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To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on…
— Stedman Graham
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned…
— Peter Matthiessen
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There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of…
— Simon Blackburn
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really…
— William James
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and…
— Napoleon Hill
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You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety,…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger,…
— J C Ryle
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
— William James
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Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there…
— Takuan Soho
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,…
— Hippocrates
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,…
— Florence King
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When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful…
— Betty Eadie
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One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover,…
— Jeannette Walls
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My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made…
— Jennifer Garner
Who Wrote These Mindedness Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 85 Mindedness Quotes, led by these top contributors: