Mind Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Anna jameson - what we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in...
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Herman Hesse
Aristotle - all paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind....
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Thomas Babington
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.
Seneca
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
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Sir Francis Bacon
Author unknown - vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a...
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
Herbert Butterfield
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
John McDonald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
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
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
Tom Gates
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon