Mind Quotes

Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
Aristophanes - by words the mind is winged....
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Lawrence of arabia, seven pillars of wisdom, suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, penguin edition p. 23 - all men dream: but not equally. those who dream...
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
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 novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
J. frank dobie, his tombstone in the texas state cemetery - i have come to value liberated minds as the...
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
Maitri Upanishads
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
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
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
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolt
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
George Gordon Byron
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
Leopold Stein
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
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
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
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
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
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
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Mark Twain
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
Joseph Joubert
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana