Active Minds Quotes

• An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

  George S. Patton

  Fitness, Inspiration, Mind

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, Powerful

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• Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

  Stephen Hawking

  Survival, Mind, Maintaining

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• If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Fall, People

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• Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Motivational, Thinking, Mind

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• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Exercise

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• When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Ideas, Getting Older, Baths

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

  Amber Valletta

  Mean, Intelligent, Brain

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• An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mind, Trying, Needs

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s
  wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.
  Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

  Marty Neumeier

  Music, Past, Play

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.27, Peachpit Press

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• An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

  Motivational, Inspiration, Innovation

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• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

  Jerome Bruner

  Views, Mind, Stories

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Objectivity, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.28, Penguin

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• To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Painful, Indolence

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

  Charles Churchill

  Mind, Attention, Blank

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• When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Eye, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.229

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all
  alike,
  boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities
  and
  towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.
  Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we
  consider
  the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are
  stupid
  need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But
  in
  reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if
  not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless,
  curious, and pernicious.

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Powerful, Children

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• To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

  Alison Pill

  Reading, Mind, Novel

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

  William Thurston

  Teaching, Math, Ideas

  William P. Thurston (2014). “Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

  William Shatner

  Forever, Mind, Example

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.342, Macmillan

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• My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.

  Sheila Walsh

  Fall, Giving, Perspective

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

  H. G. Wells

  Thinking, Two, Doubt

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• An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

  J.R. Ward

  Book, Mind, Needs

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unbound: Number 5 in series”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

  Sean O'Casey

  Eye, Past, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1981). “Inishfallen, fare thee well”

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