Mind Quotes
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
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
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.Seneca
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Albert Einstein.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.Charles Dickens
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.Richard Bach
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
Bad mind, bad heart.Anacharsis Cloots
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.Anon.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.Albert Pike
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Gustav Jung
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.Alfred A. Montapert
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
