Mind Quotes
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
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
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.John Beeche
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Gustav Jung
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.E. W. Dijkstra
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.Fred Allen
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.Thomas Hobbes
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.Charles Dickens
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.Jacqueline Cochran
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.Author Unknown
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.Cicero
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
