Mind Quotes
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.Tillotson
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
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
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
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
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 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
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.Emad Hasan
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
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.Pietro Aretino
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.John Lilly
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
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.Mortimer Adle
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.Carl Jung
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.Thomas Jefferson
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
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
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
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
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.Seneca
