Mind Quotes
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.Harold R. McAlindon
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
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
Mind is the great lever of all things.Daniel Webste
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.Thomas Babington
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.Ron Dart
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
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
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.Ovid
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.Marty Bucella
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.Calvin Coolidge
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.Johathan Sacks
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.Robert M. Hutchins
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.Helen Hoover Santmye
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 continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.John Locke
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
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.George Mathew Allen
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang - Tzu
