Mind Quotes

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.

Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965

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

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

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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

Author Unknown

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Chuang - Tzu

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Bloom

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

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

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Washington Irving

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.

Mark Twain

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Matrix, The