Mind Quotes

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

William R Allen

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

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

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteu

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.

Edward Morgan Forste

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford, 1992

Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.

Denis Watley

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.

Seneca

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca