Mind Quotes

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann von Goethe
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One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
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
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
John Sloan
Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.
En Vogue, Free Your Mind
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Celia Green
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Ennius
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Sir Philip Sidney
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The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A. E. Houseman
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
Tibetan Doctrine
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
William Hamilton
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald