Mind Quotes
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.Ernest Holmes
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.J. Gustav White
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
A great mind becomes a great fortune.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.Albert Einstein
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.Elizabeth Bibesco
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.John Wooden
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
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".
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of Chesterfield
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.Andy Warhol
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
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
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
