Mind Quotes

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
Bhagavad gita - governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on...
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein.
Henry david thoreau - a simple and independent mind does not toil at...
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Higginson
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gene spafford, 1992 - usenet is like a herd of performing elephants...
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
Anon.
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
Mark White
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
C. C. Colton
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
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 mind is not sex - Typed.
Margaret Mead
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
Bertrand Russell
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Publilius Syrus
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison, Biography
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Albert Einstein