Mind Quotes
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Publilius Syrus
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
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
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.Henry Kissinge
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.James Waddell Alexander, II
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.Albert Einstein
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.Alec Bourne
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.Ron Dart
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.Ludwig van Beethoven
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.Marcus Tullius Cicero
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Vince Lombardi
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
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.Buddha
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.Thomas Jefferson
