Mind Quotes
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.Dean Hawkins
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.Marilyn Ferguson
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.Harold R. McAlindon
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.Michel de Montaigne
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.C. Chesterfield
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
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.Benjamin Jowett
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.Charles F. Kettering
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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)
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great mind becomes a great fortune.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.Mariah Carey
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
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_
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The