Mind Quotes

Theodore roosevelt - to educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is...
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W. G. Benham
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung
Sir edward dye - my mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys...
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.
Coolio, The Winne
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Seneca
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
Toledo Blade
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander, II
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Nock
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.
Author Unknown
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred A. Montapert
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.
Seneca
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Unknown
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.
Anonymous
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
Italian Prove
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
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 da Vinci
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Francis Bacon