Mind Quotes

Pearl s. buck - nothing in life is as good as the marriage of...
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Wystan hugh auden - the image of myself which i try to create in my...
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
Ralph waldo emerson - nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of...
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Johathan Sacks
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadte
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.
James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
David Joseph Schwartz
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein