Mind Quotes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffe

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

William A. Orton

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

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

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Florence Nightingale

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

George Bernard Shaw

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leopold Stein

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

William Adams

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.

George Gordon Byron

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein

They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.

Edward Morgan Forste

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

E. W. Dijkstra

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Mark Twain

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes