Mind Quotes

James w. fulbright, march 27, 1964 - we must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. we...
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
William Shakespeare
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seneca - difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does...
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
Henry james - do not mind anything that anyone tells you about...
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
Ludwig van Beethoven
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
Sir Edward Dye
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.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
Ausonius
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Unknown
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
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
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spense
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffe
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman