Mind Quotes
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.Benjamin Harrison
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.Lyndon B. Johnson
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.George Orwell
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.Alan Simpson
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.Benjamin Jowett
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.Calvin Coolidge
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.Homer, The Odyssey
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.Wolcott Gibbs
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.Buddha, The Dharmapada
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.Gene Spafford, 1992
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.Unknown
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.Walter Bagehot
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.George Santayana
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.Denis Watley
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.Author Unknown
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Aristotle
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
