Mind Quotes

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Juvenal - a healthy mind in a healthy body....
Seneca - to be feared is to fear no one has been able to...
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
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Sir William Alton Jones
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Author Unknown
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Sivanada
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinge
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A. e. houseman - the mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be...
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Earl of Chesterfield
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.
Douglas Noel Adams
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
The mind is not sex - Typed.
Margaret Mead
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Albert Einstein
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
Tom Gates
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
Hazlitt
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Wilberforce
After 3, a body has a mind of its own.
H Hahn Blavatsky