Mind Quotes
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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 their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
My own mind is my own church.Carl Lotus Becke
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang - Tzu
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.Sir William Alton Jones
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
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
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.Robert Anson Heinlein
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
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
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Saint Jerome
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
