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
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.Thomas Jefferson
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.Eric Hoffe
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
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
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.Confucius
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
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
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
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
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.George Gordon Byron
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.A. J. Nock
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Vince Lombardi
