T. S. Eliot Quotes

We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.

The finest wits have their sediment.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

My mind is my biggest asset.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.