Mind Quotes
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
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
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.Akhenaton
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
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
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.William Penn
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?Author Unknown
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
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
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.Charles Franklin Kettering
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
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
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang - Tzu
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
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
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.Cato the Elde
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.Marty Bucella
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
The mind is not sex - Typed.Margaret Mead
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
