Mind Quotes

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

John Christian Bovee

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Adam Richardson

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

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

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

Sir William Alton Jones

The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.

Eli Khamarov

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Vince Lombardi

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.

John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

William James

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas H. Huxley

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Elayne Boosle

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Unknown

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

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

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

Anonymous

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

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

A contented mind is a continual feast.

American Prove

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri