Mind Quotes
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.Charles Dickens
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.Biologist P. B. Medawa
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
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
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
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
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.Seneca
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
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.Seneca
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.En Vogue, Free Your Mind
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
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
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.Giuseppe Mazzini
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mind is not sex - Typed.Margaret Mead
Mind is the great lever of all things.Daniel Webste
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.George Bernard Shaw
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
Bad mind, bad heart.Anacharsis Cloots
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
