Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.
Great minds sink alike, right?
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain. . . Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 910ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.
The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
Idle hands make fretful minds.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Our minds are a lot like the sea. . . you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.
Many intelligent people, when about to write. . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.
I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations. . . This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.