Top 1200 Feeble Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

It is true that the battle for secularism must be fought in the hearts and minds of people, but how does one reach out to the hearts and minds in a fascist state?

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.