Feeble Minds Quotes

• That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Lincoln Barnett, Albert Einstein (2005). “The Universe and Dr. Einstein”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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• A feeble body weakens the mind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Body

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education”, p.33

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• The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fire, Flames, May

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mind, Facts, Paralyzed

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

  William Shakespeare

  Support, Charity, Helping

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

  Black Elk

  Voice, Grandfather, Earth

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

  Enid Blyton

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Enid Blyton (2015). “Naughtiest Girl Collection 1 (books 1-3)”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  Hector Berlioz

  Mind, Firsts, Consciousness

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• I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Humble

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile”

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