Mind Quotes

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Unknown - if you begin the day with love in your heart,...
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When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.
Marty Bucella
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
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
Elayne Boosle
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinge
Howard crosby - a wisely chosen illustration is almost essential...
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
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
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Jean Ke
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
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
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
George Gordon Byron
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Pete
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.
John Beeche
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
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
William Wordsworth
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.
Author Unknown