Mind Quotes

Anonymous - if for a tranquil mind you seek, these things...
Richard stubbs, comedian, book -
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Epictetus
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
Cicero
Samuel taylor coleridge - he saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill...
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Frank H. Crane
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Lotus Becke
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Seneca
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A Bartlett Giamatti
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
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Seneca
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.
Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.
Confucius
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman