Mind Quotes
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
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.Titus Maccius Plautus
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.Greville
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.Chinese Prove
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.Thomas Jefferson
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.Eve
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.Denis Watley
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.Mia Hamm
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Peace visits not the guilty mind.Juvenal
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.Benjamin Jowett
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.William Shakespeare
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.John Wilkins
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
