Mind Quotes

Orison swett marden - we win half the battle when we make up our minds...
Anonymous - if for a tranquil mind you seek, these things...
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.
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
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
Robert
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
Lucius annaeus seneca - an action will not be right unless the will be...
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
Mariah Carey
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer, The Odyssey
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
Anon.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
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
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.
Edward Morgan Forste
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.
Juvenal
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
Phaedrus
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
Jean Nathan Mille
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Wilberforce
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952