Mind Quotes

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.

Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.

Laurence J. Pete

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Mentat Praye

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Walt Disney

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

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Henry David Thoreau

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

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

William James

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

William Shakespeare

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers

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

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

The mind is not sex - Typed.

Margaret Mead

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M. D.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu