Mind Quotes

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fulle
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
Black Elk
Albert camus - an intellectual is someone whose mind watches...
J. frank dobie, his tombstone in the texas state cemetery - i have come to value liberated minds as the...
My own mind is my own church.
Carl Lotus Becke
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace, Odes
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison, Biography
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Harold Bloom
Aristotle - it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to...
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Jean Ke
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Earl of Chesterfield
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Mathew Allen
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke