Mind Quotes
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.Robert M. Hutchins
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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 da Vinci
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.Harold R. McAlindon
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.William E. Holle
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.Maitri Upanishads
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
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
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
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.William Shakespeare
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.J. Gustav White
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
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
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.Harry Emerson Fosdick
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
