Mind Quotes
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.Harold R. McAlindon
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.Johathan Sacks
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
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.N. P. Willis
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.Thomas Babington
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
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
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
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
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
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
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.William Adams
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
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
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.William James
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.A. E. Houseman
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.John Lilly
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
