Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.
Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.