Mind Quotes
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.Aesop
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.Helen Krome
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.Oliver Wendell Holmes
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Horace
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.Sir Philip Sidney
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.John Beeche
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.Germaine De Stael
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.George Bernard Shaw
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
My own mind is my own church.Carl Lotus Becke
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.Thomas H. Huxley
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
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_
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.John Locke
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.Alan Simpson
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F Scott
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
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
