Mind Quotes
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.Marcel Proust
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.Henry Kissinge
Reading musses up my mind.Henry Ford
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
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 mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.Cicero
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.William Wordsworth
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.Sarah Orne Jewett
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.Alexander Graham Bell
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.Robert Anson Heinlein
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra, physicist
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.A Bartlett Giamatti
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
All the resources we need are in the mind.Theodore Roosevelt
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
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.William Hamilton
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.Biologist P. B. Medawa
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.Tillotson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
