Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Valery

The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted. There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

Paul von Hindenburg

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Mary Morrissey

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

James M. Barrie

asleep to rummage in their minds

Joe Rogan

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

Joe Rogan

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 sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Joe Frazier

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Joan Halifax

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Jimi Hendrix

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

Jimi Hendrix

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Erik Qualman

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Erik Erikson

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Emma Goldman

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Emma Goldman

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

John McPhee

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

John Jewel

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

John Irving

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

John Irving

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

John Howe

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

John Hurt

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

John Henrik Clarke

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henry Newman

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

John Hart

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

John Ortberg

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

John O'Donohue

Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.

John O'Donohue

The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together

John N. Mitchell

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Dewey

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.