Mind Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Moshe Arens
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.
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.Wilberforce
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.Epictetus
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.Henry Fielding
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
A healthy mind in a healthy body.Juvenal
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.Euripides
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.Sir Edward Dye
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.G. C. Lichtenberg
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.Gretel Ehrlich
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.Red Barbe
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.Anon.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Saint Jerome
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.Seneca
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
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.Demosthenes
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.
