Mind Quotes
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
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
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.Matthew Arnold
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.Barbara Tuchman
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
Speech is the mirror of the mind.Seneca
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
The idle mind knows not what it wants.Ennius
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
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
My own mind is my own church.Carl Lotus Becke
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
Love: two minds without a single thought.Philip Barry
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.Alec Bourne
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
A great mind becomes a great fortune.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.Sir Edward Dye
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
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
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
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
