Mind Quotes
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_
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang - Tzu
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.Sir Richard Francis Burton
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.Mariah Carey
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?Laurence J. Pete
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.William Penn
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
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
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.Albert Camus
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.Ron Dart
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.Eric Pio
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang Tzu
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.Joseph Rickaby
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.Charlotte Bronte
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
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
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.Ronnie Lott
