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Minds Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
- A great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
- The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
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- 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