Mind Quotes
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.Sir Edward Dye
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.Seneca
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.Michel de Montaigne
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
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
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.Robert Ingersoll
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.Albert Einstein
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
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
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.Albert Einstein
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.Kelly Le Brock
