Mind Quotes

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Mia Hamm

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Sir Philip Sidney

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

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

Kelly Le Brock

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Barbara Tuchman

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Robert Ingersoll

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

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

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

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Rig Veda

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

W. G. Benham

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux