Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Aguilera

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

Chris Noth

I don't mind demanding women.

Chris Murray

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

Chris Murray

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

Chris Martin

I don't mind not being cool.

Chris Hemsworth

Keeping an open mind is always important.

Francis Bacon

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Frances Perkins

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

Frances Wright

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Frances Wright

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Fran Kranz

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

George Santayana

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

George Santayana

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

George Santayana

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

George Santayana

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

George Santayana

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

George McGovern

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George Orwell

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

George Noory

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

G. H. Hardy

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Franz Boas

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought

Franz Grillparzer

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Franz Grillparzer

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Jeff Lindsay

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Jeanette Winterson

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.