Minds Quotes
3514 quotes by 2190 authors
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
— William Shakespeare
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
— Unknown Author
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can…
— Abdallah II
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Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents,…
— Kim Wilde
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I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
— J. G. Ballard
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
— William Wordsworth
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Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
— Edward Abbey
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Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But…
— Julian Barnes
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating…
— Samuel Adams
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Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the…
— Samuel Adams
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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early…
— Thomas Paine
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as…
— Thomas Hutchinson
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The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent…
— Margaret Sanger
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Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves
— Chinua Achebe
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,…
— Arundhati Roy
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I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I…
— Mark Van Doren
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
— John Stuart Mill
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