Mind Quotes

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.

Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Robert Cecil Day Lewis

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Rig Veda

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

Krishnamurti

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.

Aldous Huxley

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Chuang - Tzu

Great minds think alike.

Anon.

Reading musses up my mind.

Henry Ford

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Napolean Hill

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewa

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra, physicist

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Author Unknown

Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

John Ervine

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

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

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw