Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Chernow

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Umberto Eco

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Umberto Eco

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words...

Tryon Edwards

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Tryon Edwards

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Raymond Chandler

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

Regina Spektor

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

Rebecca Solnit

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned...

Rick Yancey

I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

Rick Yancey

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

Rick Warren

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Tony Visconti

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

Steve Winwood

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

Veronica Roth

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

Vince McMahon

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

Vikas Swarup

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

Robert Glasper

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

Storm Jameson

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

Stevie Wonder

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

Sonny Rollins

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

Steve Jobs

Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

Steve Jobs

Computers are like a bicycle for our minds

Stephen Fry

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Stephen Fry

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

St. Jerome

Small minds can never handle great themes.

Sri Chinmoy

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Sri Chinmoy

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

Sri Chinmoy

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

Sri Aurobindo

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

Sri Aurobindo

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

Sri Aurobindo

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.