Mind Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Leopold stein - to be intelligent is to be open - minded, active,...
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.
Mark Twain
Virginia woolf - literature is strewn with the wreckage of those...
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.
Satchel Paige
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
Laurence j. pete - if a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered...
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurbe
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
My own mind is my own church.
Carl Lotus Becke
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
John Christian Bovee
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
Italian Prove
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
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
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel