Mind Quotes
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!William Shakespeare
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
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
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.George Santayana
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.Unknown
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.H. G. Wells, 1903
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
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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
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
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
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 Snow - Walkers
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
