Mind Quotes
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.Matthew Arnold
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
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? ".
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
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
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
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.Edmund Spense
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.Robert Oxton Bolt
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.George Santayana
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
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
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.William Shakespeare
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.Cato, Roman statesman and historian
