Mind Quotes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinge

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

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

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

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Lenny Bruce

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Albert Einstein

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

George Washington Allston

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jean Ke

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

Charles F. Kettering

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

La Rochefoucauld

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteu

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)

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Oxton Bolt

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webste

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

J. Krishnamutri

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick