Mind Quotes
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.Leopold Stein
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Speech is the mirror of the mind.Seneca
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.H. G. Wells, 1903
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison
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
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.Mentat Praye
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.H. L. Mencken
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.Robert Bakker, paleontologist
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.Sophocles, Trachiniae
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.Author Unknown
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.Thomas H. Huxley
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
Hate pollutes the mind.Author Unknown
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.Jane E. Brody
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
