Mind Quotes
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 we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
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
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.John Christian Bovee
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!William Shakespeare
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.William E. Holle
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?Author Unknown
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.Charles Dickens
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Aristotle
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
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 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
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.Edward Albee
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
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
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.Walt Disney
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.Andrew Carnegie
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
Great minds think alike.Anon.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
