Mind Quotes

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Raquel Welch

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.

John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.

Aldous Huxley

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Edward Albee

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Arthur Guiterman

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Hofstadte

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spense

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

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

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton, Prey

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

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

Virginia Woolf

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.

Frank L. Boyden

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Anonymous

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

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

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Aristotle

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Ennius

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

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