O Quotes
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“Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.”
Source: I, Fellini
“Our minds control us; we do not control our minds.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.”
“Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow”
“Our minds have a belief system filter that rejects or ridicules information that is inconsistent with our beliefs.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Our minds have a soft corner for stories.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“Our minds have advanced from the brutal, terrified, survivalist ethos of Mr. Caveman to the secure plateau of modern-day living. We now expect to survive into our eighties or beyond, to not endure brutal conditions, and to be able to negotiate a society that provides pathways toward success and even happiness, which is one reason I assert that happiness is a modern invention. It is when societies begin to break clown and fail in their promises that we begin to question this exchange.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. That is the paradox this book has tried to explain. Human beings have social instincts. They come into the world equipped with predispositions to learn how to cooperate, to discriminate the trustworthy from the treacherous, to commit themselves to be trustworthy, to earn good reputations, to exchange goods and information, and to divide labour.”
Source: The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
“Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.”
“Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.”
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our relation to people and things. They aim for control because ownership falsely promises us an elevated sense of self. But this is exactly the opposite of love. When we fall in love, we disidentify and get lost for a little while in a song, a beautiful painting, and most of all, we get lost in our lover. And through their love, we find our true infinite selves.”
“Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.”
“Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.”
“Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.”
“Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.”
Source: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
“Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.”
“Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.”
“Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.”
Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays
“Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)”
Source: Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness
“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.”
“Our minds, Ray, our capacity for reason, are what make us human. Without them, we’re nothing but animals. Beasts.”
Source: In Limbo
“Our minds shape reality ... that is why superstitious peasants burn witches, jealous lovers murder their beloved, and lonely veterans put nooses around their necks.”
Source: Dreams of the Dying
“Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.”
“Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.”
“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul.”
“Our minds thrive on environments of familiarity and predictability, and there is good reason for such structure to be favorable.”
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.”
Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth
“Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.”
Source: Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
“Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.”
Source: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
“Our minds were so perfectly in harmony that not a chord was struck in the one without awakening an echo in the other; and in this harmonious striking of different chords we found the greatest delight. Indeed, we felt as though time and language were insufficient to express the thoughts which seethed within us.”
Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.”
Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour
“Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”
“Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.”
“Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Adventurer and Rasselas
“Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.”
Source: Laws of the Heart
“Our mindset determines our reality. When we believe in abundance, we attract more of it into our lives. Excuses are the chains that bind us to scarcity.”
“Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.”
“Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.”
“Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.”
“Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.”
Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“Our mirror neurons – specialised nerve cells that allow us to pick up on how other people are feeling – allow us to feel the fear in others. And when we see people feel the fear but take on the challenge anyway, we are inspired. It is a signature moment for performance under pressure.”
Source: Perform Under Pressure: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act Under Pressure
“Our misbeliefs often make it impossible for us to realize, and/or to accept, some facts.”
“Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914