Mind Quotes

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Milton

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

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

Ausonius

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

It is the mind that makes the man.

Ovid

To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.

Aldous Huxley

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Johann von Goethe

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

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

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

Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.

Seneca

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Author Unknown

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Vince Lombardi

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.

Adam Smith

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

William Adams

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

A. J. Nock

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

Bad mind, bad heart.

Anacharsis Cloots

He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.

Black Elk

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