Mind Quotes

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

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

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle

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 da Vinci

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Wilberforce

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Anonymous

Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.

Miyamoto Musashi

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas H. Huxley