Mind Quotes
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.Anonymous
Love: two minds without a single thought.Philip Barry
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.George Gordon Byron
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang - Tzu
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.Eli Khamarov
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.Fred Allen
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.Alfred A. Montapert
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
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
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
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.H. G. Wells, 1903
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
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
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
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".
