Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

James Lovelock

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

Joe Rogan

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

Joe Rogan

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

John Dos Passos

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

John Ortberg

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

John O'Donohue

Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

John O'Donohue

The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together

John N. Mitchell

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Dewey

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

John Dewey

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

John Dewey

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

John Dewey

Mind is a verb not a noun.

John Dewey

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Carroll

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

John Calvin

No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

Johann Georg Hamann

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Joel Kinnaman

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Joe Hill

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

Joan Osborne

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.

Joan Rivers

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

Gabrielle Roy

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Gabriela Sabatini

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Gabriela Sabatini

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Frankie Valli

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

Francois Fenelon

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Francois Fenelon

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is bubble-gum for the mind

Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

George Combe

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.