Top 1200 Great Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young minds with great literature?

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

What I love about 'Criminal Minds' is that Morgan is an ex-marine, ex-SWAT. To do those things you have to be a pretty badass dude. It's a great incentive to stay in shape.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

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

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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.

If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

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?

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

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.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

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.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

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.

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.

Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!

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

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

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.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

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.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

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.

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

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

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It's tough duty.

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.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

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.