Mind Quotes

Cicero - the wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds...
La rochefoucauld - it is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all...
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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
It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
General omar bradley - this is as true in everyday life as it is in...
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.
Mark Twain
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
Washington Irving
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
George Bernard Shaw
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
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
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick