Mind Quotes
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.Robert Ingersoll
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.Orison Swett Marden
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.Sir William Alton Jones
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.John Milton
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.Jane E. Brody
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.Johann von Goethe
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.La Rochefoucauld
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.Elayne Boosle
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.Andrew Carnegie
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
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.Eli Khamarov
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.Plato
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.Mentat Praye
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.Thomas Higginson
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Vince Lombardi
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...Benjamin Disraeli
