Mind Quotes

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

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

Vince Lombardi

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Author Unknown

Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.

Anonymous

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three

Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.

Unknown

I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Robert Bakker, paleontologist

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Milton

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

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry Kissinge

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.

J. Arthur Lewis

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

Great minds think alike.

Anon.

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

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

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.

Albert Einstein

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

Charles R. Swindoll

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.

Richard Bethell

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung