Mind Quotes

Kahlil gibran - it is slavery to live in the mind unless it has...
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Euripides
Bertrand russell - it is because modern education is so seldom...
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Edmund burke - the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar...
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
William Shakespeare
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...
Plato, _Phaedrus_
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spense
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
Harold R. McAlindon
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberge
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
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