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Minds Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come…
- The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization…
- If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I…
- The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
- It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
- I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they…
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being…
- At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among…
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