Mind Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of...
Toledo blade - a great many open minds should be closed for...
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
Joseph rickaby - a great preservative against angry and mutinous...
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.
Mark Twain
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
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
Arthur Rimbaud
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
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
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
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".
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton