Mind Quotes

Denis watley - luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the...
Gilbert keith chesterton - truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction...
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Earl of Chesterfield
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Watley
John stuart mill, on liberty - over one mind and over ones body the individual...
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.
Helen Krome
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.
Juvenal
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi
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
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
Arthur Guiterman
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.
Author Unknown
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Francis Bacon
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Unknown
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
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
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
Carl Jung