Mind Quotes
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.Ruth Ross
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
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The idle mind knows not what it wants.Ennius
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.Johann von Goethe
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
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.
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H. P. Lovecraft
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.George Washington Allston
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.Anonymous
All the resources we need are in the mind.Theodore Roosevelt
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.James
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.Tillotson
