Mind Quotes
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.Roger Babson
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
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.Fontenelle
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.Vincent Van Gogh
The mind can also be an erogenous zone.Raquel Welch
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
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Albert Einstein.
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.Anon.
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.H. L. Mencken
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.Charles F. Kettering
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.Arthur Guiterman
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson