Famous quotes containing the word minds:
“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all the abstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called “Sympathetic Nature.””
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)
“Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)