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Minds Quotes (page 196)

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. Albert Einstein
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind..... Anais Nin
E. M. Forster quote: "A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a..."
A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. E. M. Forster
Anthony J. D'Angelo quote: "Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open."
Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open. Anthony J. D'Angelo
Deborah Tannen quote: "Smashing heads does not open minds."
Smashing heads does not open minds. Deborah Tannen
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, stickinglike lint to the familiar. Mary Oliver
Milovan Djilas quote: "Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal..."
Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it. Milovan Djilas
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Robert A. Heinlein
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade. Allen Ginsberg
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Emma Goldman
Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives shape to a whole order of creatures of which we are the lowliest, and everything around us seems to be more glorious, everyone else more perfect...If, on the other hand, we can make up our minds to go about our daily tasks, resigned to our feelings, and hardships, we often find that, in spite of our meanderings and procrastinations, we... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power. Louise L. Hay
The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity. Samuel Johnson
John Milton quote: "The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell..."
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own. George Eliot

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