Mind Quotes
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.H. L. Mencken
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.Cato the Elde
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.Bruce Lee
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.Thomas H. Huxley
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.Eric Pio
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.Carl Jung
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.Arnold Schwarzenegger
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?Bruce Burton
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.Joseph Rickaby
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
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.Ovid
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.Greville
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
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
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
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
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.Mariah Carey
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.Charles Franklin Kettering