Mind Quotes

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Thomas h. huxley - the deepest sin against the human mind is to...
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.
Seneca
D. a. battista - poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the...
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Menande
A contented mind is a continual feast.
American Prove
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
Jesse Shelley
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
Margaret thatche - i usually make up my mind about a man in ten...
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang - Tzu
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.
Anonymous
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Martin Fische
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
Anon.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.
Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
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
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadte