Mind Quotes

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
C. Chesterfield
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
Andrew carnegie - the man who acquires the ability to take full...
Marcus aurelius antoninus - such as are your habitual thoughts, such also...
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
Ausonius
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurbe
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Sterne
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Wolcott Gibbs
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Sivanada
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
Plato - music is a moral law. it gives soul to the...
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
Charles Babbage
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
N. P. Willis
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
C. C. Colton
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
Claude M. Bristol
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurbe
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Herman Hesse
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
La Rochefoucauld
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adle
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown, UNESCO Constitution