Mind Quotes
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
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Publilius Syrus
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
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
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.Sir Edward Dye
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)
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.Harold Bloom
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.Leopold Stein
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.Mark Twain
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.Seneca
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.George Santayana
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.William James
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.Elayne Boosle
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.Author Unknown
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.Juvenal, Satires
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.Andy Warhol
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
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
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
