Mind Quotes
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.Seneca
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.Author Unknown
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteu
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
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.Ovid
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.Epictetus
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.John Lilly
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?Laurence J. Pete
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.J. Gustav White
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.Margaret Thatche
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.Walter Bagehot
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang - Tzu
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, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.Anonymous
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
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
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895
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.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.Henry Kissinge
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
