Top 1200 Feeble Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children?s hands.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world.