Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

John Dryden

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favours the trained mind.

Louis Pasteur

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Louis Pasteur

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Lord Byron

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

John Christopher

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

John Brunner

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

John Brunner

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

M. Russell Ballard

We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

John Bevere

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

Matthieu Ricard

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

Matthieu Ricard

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

Matt Smith

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Matthew Arnold

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

Meg Ryan

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Maya Angelou

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Max Weber

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Max Brooks

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Marilynne Robinson

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Marilynne Robinson

Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.

Marilynne Robinson

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

Marilynne Robinson

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Maria Montessori

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Maria Montessori

The development of the mind comes through movement

I'm not going to lie, it went through my mind throughout the day.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.