Mind Quotes

Pearl s. buck - nothing in life is as good as the marriage of...
Margaret mead - the mind is not sex - typed....
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
Aleister crowley - to read a newspaper is to refrain from reading...
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.
Author Unknown
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.
Marty Bucella
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang - Tzu
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
William Penn
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
T. S. Eliot
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 dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Author Unknown
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
William Hamilton
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
South
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Francis Bacon
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmye
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
William Shakespeare
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
Unknown
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.
Mark Twain
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca