Mind Quotes

G. k. chesterton - truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,...
Washington irving - some minds seem almost to create themselves,...
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
La Rochefoucauld
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberge
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
George s. arundale - the conqueror and king in each of us is the...
Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
John Ervine
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Menande
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
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 DaVinci
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
Jesse Shelley