Minds Quotes
3514 quotes by 2190 authors
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The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and…
— Dawna Markova
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Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to…
— Faraaz Kazi
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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate…
— Robert H. Jackson
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The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
— Herbert Hoover
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Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.
— Hugo Black
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But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
— Ayn Rand
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I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept…
— Gustav Stresemann
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it,…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
— Epictetus
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Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
— Budd Schulberg
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I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in…
— Carl Albert
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What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
— Samuel Johnson
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Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
— Geoffrey Fisher
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place…
— George A. Sheehan
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There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.
— Benjamin Franklin
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