Mind Quotes

Marcus aelius aurelius - let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind...
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Albert einstein, the world as i see it. - when you look at yourself from a universal...
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.
Anacharsis Cloots
Alfred north whitehead - nature gets credit which should in truth be...
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
William James
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
T. S. Eliot
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
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
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan Taylo
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese prove
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred A. Montapert
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Celia Green
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
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
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
Harold R. McAlindon
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge