Mind Quotes

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
Ralph waldo emerson - he then learns that in going down into the...
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.
Coolio, The Winne
John milton, dr. faustus - the mind is its own place and in itself can make...
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
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
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.
Laurence J. Pete
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Sterne
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle
William fullbright - we must dare to think about unthinkable things...
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Johathan Sacks
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
The mind is not sex - Typed.
Margaret Mead
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
George Bernard Shaw
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Watley
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Juvenal
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Sir Francis Bacon
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. Huxley
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffe
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. Lichtenberg