Mind Quotes
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.Ovid
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Albert Einstein.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.Matthew Arnold
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.Author Unknown
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.Logan Pearsall Smith
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.William Shakespeare
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.Wendell Willkie
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.George S. Arundale
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.Bertrand Russell
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.Endre Balogh
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Publilius Syrus
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.Sophocles, Trachiniae
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
