Minds Like Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

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
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. — Weston La Barre
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open. — James Dewar
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Alexandra Sokoloff
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with… — Harper Lee
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. — Alexander Pope
Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our… — Mata Amritanandamayi
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in… — Os Guinness
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow… — Samuel Johnson
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing. — Karen Cushman
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And… — Candace Bushnell
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you… — Neil Gaiman
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks… — J. G. Ballard
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are… — Emma Willard

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