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Quotable MiND

Ideas matter. And a lot of good ideas are captured in quotable quotes. We’ve started to keep a list. Please use the MiND Message Board to suggest your own. We’ll post a selection of favorites here.

   

“I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.”
- Sonya Sanchez, poet

   

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein, scientist

   
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
Shirley Chisholm - the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress (1968-1983)
   
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
   
"We stand in life at midnight, we are always on the threshold of a new dawn."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
   
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
   
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
-Mahatma Gandhi
   
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead
   
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
- Jane Goodall
   
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
-Benjamin Franklin
   
   

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