Mind Quotes

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Author Unknown

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William E. Channing

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.

Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Adam Richardson

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells, 1903

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

Charles R. Swindoll

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Sterne

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.

Seneca

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Bertrand Russell

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Elayne Boosle

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.

Confucius

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990

Great minds think independently, not alike.

Unknown

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Seneca

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred A. Montapert

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes