Mind Quotes

The dhammapada - if one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery...
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
William James
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Earl of Chesterfield
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Red barbe - baseball is dull only to dull minds....
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Morris Adle
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Rmy de gourmont - very simple ideas lie within the reach only of...
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
Mark Twain
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.
Unknown
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
Homer, The Odyssey
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841