Top 1200 Feeble Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

We can create any sort of flavor on a printed image that we set our minds to.

The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

All actors will tell you that baddies are where the money is because they stick in people's minds.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.