Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. – Bryant H. McGill
When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne’s in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds. – Anne F. Beiler
If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way. – Chrysippus
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. – Alex Tabarrok
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we’ve got a story about absolutely everything. – Chuck Palahniuk
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. – Alfred Russel Wallace
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. – Carl Sagan
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. – Alva Myrdal
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that’s how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it’s discomfiting if we don’t understand things. – Anthony Zerbe
The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid. – Billy Burke
If you can open people’s hearts first, then maybe people’s minds get opened after that. – Annette Bening
People are much deeper than stereotypes. That’s the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, ‘I’d have never guessed.’ – Carson Kressley
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. – Casey Stengel
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire. – Bobbie Ann Mason
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I’ll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds. – Billy Bob Thornton
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. – Alfred North Whitehead
I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders. – Al Franken
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. – Alexis de Tocqueville
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. – Ezra Cornell
Men’s minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. – Mary Barnett Gilson
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. – Georg C. Lichtenberg