Mind Quotes

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
Virgil
Auguste rodin - art is contemplation. it is the pleasure of the...
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
William shakespeare - but to my mind, though i am native here and to...
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry Kissinge
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
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
Anon.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
James Ramsey
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
Carl jung - i have always been impressed by the fact that...
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Seneca
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barbe
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
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 a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
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
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.
J. Gustav White
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger