Mind Quotes

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.

James

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

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

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Jean De la Fontaine

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.

Miyamoto Musashi

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Euripides

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

A. E. Houseman

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Love: two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

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

Alfred North Whitehead

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hays Sulzberge

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteu

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare