Mind Quotes
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.Harold Bloom
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.Seneca
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.John Lilly
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.Anon.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
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
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.G. C. Lichtenberg
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
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
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.Confucius
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.Wolcott Gibbs
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.Ovid
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.Frank H. Crane
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Gustav Jung
