A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. – Henri Poincare
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently. – Harry A. Blackmun
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. – Henry David Thoreau
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. – Henry Kissinger
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. – George Richards Minot
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. – H. P. Lovecraft
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. – Grover Cleveland
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. – Hamid Karzai
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. – Geoffrey Fisher
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting. – Joanna Lumley
That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. – Isaac Newton
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It’s mere diversion. – John Ortberg
I’m a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them. – Joe Rogan
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes – undisturbed in form and position. – Josh McDowell
In Children Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. – Sitting Bull His plea to representatives of U.S. government, in negotiations for the treaty under which the Lakota ceded their lands.
Part-black generally means all-black in Americans’ minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups’ camps. – Jeffrey Kluger
We need to have an educational system that’s able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn’t have to fit into a certain mold of learning. – James Hillman
Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy
Writers seem mesmerized by the state – the temporal entity. The word ‘perestroika’ is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer. – Joseph Brodsky
