Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Auguste Comte

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Augusten Burroughs

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Arthur Koestler

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Arthur Miller

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

Dennis Prager

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Denis Healey

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Democritus

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Deborah Tannen

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

Edgar Allan Poe

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

Edgar Allan Poe

I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind

Elbert Hubbard

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Elbert Hubbard

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Edvard Grieg

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Edward Abbey

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Edward Abbey

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Aristotle

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Aristotle

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Ben Horowitz

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Ben Jonson

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

Ahmed Zewail

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Reggie Watts

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

Samantha Shannon

I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

Samantha Morton

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexei Sayle

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Alexandre Dumas

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.