Mind Quotes

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
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I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
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 creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.
Confucius
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
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".
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
George Gordon Byron
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
Anonymous - liberals are very broadminded they are always...
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
Mark Twain
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield
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 use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Germaine De Stael
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Unknown
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius