Minds Quotes

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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. — Malcolm X
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that… — Marya Mannes
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it… — Andre Gide
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. — William Hazlitt
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;… — Bertrand Russell
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. — Samuel Johnson
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades. — Frank Moore Colby
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur
Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was… — Hillary Clinton
It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade… — Marc Maron
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty… — John C. Maxwell
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill

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