Minds Quotes

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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.… — Pema Chodron
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is… — Matthieu Ricard
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy… — Kerry Washington
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. — Orison Swett Marden
It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are able to share this love… — M. Russell Ballard
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it. — Marge Piercy
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. — Clifford Stoll
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it… — Nikola Tesla
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again. — Aristotle
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. — Lord Chesterfield
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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