Mind Quotes
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.John Sloan
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.John Locke
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Saint Jerome
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
