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Minds Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- 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…
- We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
- The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing…
- Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily…
- When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed…
- Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
- A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
- Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
- Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
- What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all…
- It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
- The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
- Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter,…
- He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
- Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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