Mind Quotes
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.William Hamilton
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
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
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.Harry Emerson Fosdick
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.Henry David Thoreau
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
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
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
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.Dee Hock
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.Author Unknown
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.Alfred A. Montapert
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang Tzu
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.Sophocles, Trachiniae
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Hate pollutes the mind.Author Unknown
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.Demosthenes
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
