Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

John Dewey

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

John Dewey

Mind is a verb not a noun.

John Dewey

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Leo Tolstoy

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Leo Tolstoy

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

Leo Burnett

Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind.

Leo Burnett

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

Lady Gaga

Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.

Lewis Carroll

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Lewis Carroll

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Lewis Carroll

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn't know what to deny!

Lewis Carroll

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies...

Joseph Campbell

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

Joseph Campbell

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Joy Page

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Joyce Brothers

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Joseph Murray

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Joseph Murphy

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

Joseph Murphy

A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life.

Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Joseph Pilates

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

Joseph Pilates

It is the mind that shapes the body

Joseph Pilates

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Joseph Pilates

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

Joseph Pilates

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Joseph Pilates

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Julianna Baggott

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.