Mind Quotes

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Tillotson

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

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

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

William R Allen

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Charles F. Kettering

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

Anonymous

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers

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

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

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 suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

Publilius Syrus

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville