Mind Quotes

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

Love: two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Harry S Truman

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

William Shakespeare

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

Epictetus

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

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

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

Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.

Unknown

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Florence Nightingale

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.

George Gordon Byron

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

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

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

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

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

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Bloom

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

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