Mind Quotes

My own mind is my own church.

Carl Lotus Becke

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S Truman

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Robert Ingersoll

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Red Barbe

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

Saint Jerome

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Mark Twain

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

George Santayana

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

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

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Arthur Guiterman

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

Epictetus

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Jane Caminos

No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry Kissinge

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.

Marty Bucella

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.

Unknown

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal