Mind Quotes

Leopold stein - to be intelligent is to be open - minded, active,...
Celia green - the remarkable thing about the human mind is its...
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Swami sivanada - put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to...
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.
Mark Twain
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
Chinese Prove
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Henry Fielding
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
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
Michael Crichton, Prey
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.
Coolio, The Winne
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.
Satchel Paige
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
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
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
Arthur Guiterman
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.
Edward Morgan Forste