Mind Quotes

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Mark White

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.

Frank L. Boyden

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Seneca

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

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

Reading musses up my mind.

Henry Ford

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.

Author Unknown

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Love: two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

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 best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

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

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Anonymous

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

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

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt