Mind Quotes
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteu
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Hans Margolius
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.Albert Pike
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.Arthur Hays Sulzberge
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.J. Gustav White
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.Chinese Prove
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.Titus Maccius Plautus
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
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
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.Robert Ingersoll
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
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 - Warne
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
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?Laurence J. Pete
It is the mind that makes the man.Ovid
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!William Shakespeare
