Mind Quotes

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

Hate pollutes the mind.

Author Unknown

The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Robert Bakker, paleontologist

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Demosthenes

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

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

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinge

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...

Benjamin Disraeli

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

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Emerich Edward Dalbert

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Jeremy Taylo

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas H. Huxley

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

A. E. Houseman