Mind Quotes
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.Walt Disney
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.John Beeche
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.H. G. Wells, 1903
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.Albert Einstein
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.Charles Dickens
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Maya Angelou
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.Alec Bourne
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.John Wooden
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
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
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.Alfred A. Montapert
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
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".
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.Mentat Praye
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.Alexander Graham Bell
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.Albert Einstein
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.Helen Hoover Santmye
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.John Christian Bovee
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.D. H. Lawrence
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.George Washington Allston
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
