Mind Quotes

Plato, the republic - bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to...
C. c. colton - it is with disease of the mind, as with those of...
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
South
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ralph waldo emerson - he then learns that in going down into the...
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Author Unknown
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
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.
Chinese Prove
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
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
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
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
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Franklin Kettering
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
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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
It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?
Bruce Burton
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
Maitri Upanishads
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell