Mind Quotes
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
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
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.John Brown
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteu
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.Jack Youngblood
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
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_
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
Love: two minds without a single thought.Philip Barry
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
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
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.Benjamin Jowett
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Samuel Johnson
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.George S. Arundale
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.D. H. Lawrence
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.Celia Green
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
