Mind Quotes

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

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Jean De la Fontaine

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

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

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

William Wordsworth

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.

Confucius

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Rig Veda

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

Alfred A. Montapert

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

Hate pollutes the mind.

Author Unknown

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.

Ron Dart

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Harry S Truman

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

N. P. Willis

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William E. Channing

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

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spense

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous