Mind Quotes

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteu

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Jane Caminos

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.

Maitri Upanishads

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Jeremy Taylo

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

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

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Edward Albee

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes