#minds

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#credit #developments #discoveries #due #feel

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#greatest #minds #vices #virtues #well

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

— James Dewar

#like #minds #only #open #parachutes

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ↗

— Walt Disney

#classrooms #crowded #greatest #minds #national

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. ↗

— John Dryden

#different #different way #enlightens #fool #love

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ↗

— Walter Duranty

#hopes #minds #most #people #problem

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#business #business community #community #difficult #difficult task