Mind Quotes

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
John stuart mill - those only are happy who have their minds fixed...
Charles babbage - propose to any englishman any principle, or any...
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
Author Unknown
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
Eddie Myers
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.
Robert Anson Heinlein
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
J. k. rowling - to the well - organized mind, death is but the...
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
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
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
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Bhagavad Gita
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
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
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barbe
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.
Satchel Paige
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.
Juvenal
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W. G. Benham
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland