Mind Quotes
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.Eli Khamarov
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.Mary Wortley Montagu
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteu
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.Benjamin Franklin
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Jean De la Fontaine
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.Eduard Hanslick
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.Marcus Tullius Cicero
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.Benjamin Disraeli
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Moshe Arens
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.Jack Youngblood
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.William Shakespeare
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.Gretel Ehrlich
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
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
