Mind Quotes
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.Chinese Prove
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
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
A healthy mind in a healthy body.Juvenal
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.Cato the Elde
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.Unknown
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.Alan Simpson
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
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.Black Elk
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.Thomas H. Huxley
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.Edmund Spense
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
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
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...Benjamin Disraeli
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.Author Unknown
