Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all...

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me...

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world–the brains of men.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.

Creative minds doesn’t follow rules, they follow will.

Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”[Academy Award ceremony, March...

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in improving yourself, so that you can do better and better work. That is...

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

Sometimes when I’m writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they’re really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Maybe it’s better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

The length of your shoe may change, the size of your pant may also change; but your life will never change until your mind changes!© more talks

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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.

See the life through your heart, understand it by your mind and love it like your soul.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

Aren’t we all homeless without a home inside our mind?

Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

I’m trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people’s minds off their troubles.

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the...

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life...

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.

The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

Thinking minds doesn’t get bored.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men’s minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that,...

A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

There’s nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we’ve got this in our minds that we’ve got to make everything cold.

…the territory of unsubstantiated opinions embraced by lazy minds.

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts...

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It’s like a cancer that’s metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is...

In the wilderness of lifeHappiness is looking for youIn the jungles of dreams and desires,In the beauty of shrubs and flowers,In the span of sadness and kindness. In the deepness of hearts and minds.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

When I’m rhyming it’s all in my head… Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.