Mind Quotes
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.Johann von Goethe
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.Fred Allen
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.A. J. Nock
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.Greville
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.Barbara Tuchman
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
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
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.Author Unknown
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.William Wordsworth
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
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
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.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.William Shakespeare
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
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
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.Ludwig van Beethoven
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.Ausonius
