Mind Quotes
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
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
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.Charlotte Bronte
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.Jane E. Brody
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
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
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
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.Ronnie Lott
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.Cato, Roman statesman and historian
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.C. C. Colton
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.Anon.
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
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.Eve
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.John Sloan
