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Minds Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
- Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will…
- It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;…
- Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
- I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their…
- That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have…
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who…
- Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt…
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the…
- Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source…
More Minds Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them. — Jane Austen
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Only idiots refuse to change their minds. — Brigitte Bardot
- Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. — James M. Barrie
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. — John Adams