Mind Quotes

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha, The Dharmapada

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.

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

Tibetan Doctrine

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938

To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

George F. Gilde

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.

Mariah Carey

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

E. W. Dijkstra

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

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

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7

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 have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Carl Jung

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Germaine De Stael

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.

Helen Krome

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero