Top 1200 Great Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of their generation, but they're not the best minds. They don't realize that they may be the worst minds of their generation.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Thom Browne is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in men's wear.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Small minds can never handle great themes.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.