Mind Quotes

Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.

Denis Watley

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Franklin Kettering

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

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.

Author Unknown

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

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

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

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.

Frank L. Boyden

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Daniel Webste

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Thomas Babington

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Theodore Roosevelt

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

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