Mind Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

La Rochefoucauld

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.

Robert

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Lenny Bruce

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Hamilton

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Ingersoll

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

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

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

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.

Anon.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard