Mind Quotes
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.Black Elk
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
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
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
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
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra, physicist
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.Charles R. Swindoll
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.George Washington Allston
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas
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
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Maya Angelou
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Publilius Syrus
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
Hate pollutes the mind.Author Unknown
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.Tillotson
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.George Bernard Shaw
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
