Mind Quotes

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

Eric Pio

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Earl of Chesterfield

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

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

Unknown

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Gustav Jung

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Charles F. Kettering

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

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

Confucius

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.

John Beeche

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Emerich Edward Dalbert

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

Gene Spafford, 1992

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

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

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman