Mind Quotes

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
John locke - earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the...
Italian prove - never let people see the bottom of your purse or...
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...
Benjamin Disraeli
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
C. Chesterfield
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
T. S. Eliot
All the resources we need are in the mind.
Theodore Roosevelt
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
Black Elk
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Thomas a kempis, imitation of christ - and when he is out of sight, quickly also is he...
Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.
Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
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 you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
William A. Orton
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
Kelly Le Brock
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
Jesse Shelley
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Higginson
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson