Mind Quotes

It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
Thomas fulle - judge of thine improvement, not by what thou...
Jawaharlal nehru - peace is not a relationship of nations. it is a...
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adle
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.
Endre Balogh
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
Hate pollutes the mind.
Author Unknown
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Walt Disney
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
Charles dickens - if a pig could give his mind to anything, he...
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.
Eve
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
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
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Great minds think alike.
Anon.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten
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
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco