Mind Quotes
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
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.Carl Jung
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Dennis Roch
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
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds think alike.Anon.
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.Johathan Sacks
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.Unknown
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.Robert Valett
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.Anonymous
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.Elizabeth Bibesco
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.Confucius
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.Bruce Lee
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Vince Lombardi
Love: two minds without a single thought.Philip Barry
