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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they...

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Quote by James Dewar about opinion

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, ...

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Quote by Hyman George Rickover about ideal, events, people

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

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

Quote by Elbert Hubbard about people

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great...

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about mind

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Quote by Erich Fromm about dream, sleep, nothing

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but...

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Quote by Francis Bacon about philosophy, man, religion, mind

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from...

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, word

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits, common sense, people

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if...

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Quote by John Adams about old, olderness, wish, order

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with...

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Quote by Warren Beatty

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about adventure, joy, life

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Quote by Jane Austen about good, good luck

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to...

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about longing, nature, truth

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by...

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about instinct, experience, reason

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

I can't sing it in no nightclub. People can't put their...

I can't sing it in no nightclub. People can't put their minds on the Lord in a place like that.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about nation, people

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Quote by Billy Joel about need, human imperfections, love, people

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gratitude, revenge, pain, pleasure

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that...

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Quote by James Joyce about happiness

Murphy's love laws: If you get them by the balls, their...

Murphy's love laws: If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about love

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