Mind Quotes

Ovid - happy is the man who has broken the chains which...
George f. gilde - real poverty is less a state of income than a...
Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Hellen Kelle
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich
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
Robert bakker, paleontologist - i want to find a voracious, small - minded...
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Albert Einstein
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parke
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Harold Bloom
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison, Biography
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
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo DaVinci
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.
Eli Khamarov
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
George Santayana
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Epictetus
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Ennius
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Unknown
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.
Douglas Noel Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W. G. Benham