Mind Quotes
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.Jane E. Brody
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
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
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.William James
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?Author Unknown
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.Colin Wilson
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.Thomas Hobbes
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.John Dryden
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
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 the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
Mind is the great lever of all things.Daniel Webste
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.Seneca
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.Robert Frost
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra, physicist
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
