Mind Quotes

Abraham lincoln - people are about as happy as they make up their...
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
Hazlitt
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
Michael Crichton, Prey
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
Maitri Upanishads
Lewis thomas - we pass the word around we ponder how the case is...
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Ralph waldo emerson - a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
George Gordon Byron
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Tillotson
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Germaine De Stael
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
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
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
William E. Holle
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
Charles Dickens
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
John McDonald
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.
William Shakespeare
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch