Mind Quotes

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

La Rochefoucauld

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Samuel Johnson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.

Miyamoto Musashi

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Cicero

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.

Laurence J. Pete

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Carl Jung

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leopold Stein

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Conformity is the ruin of the mind.

Jesse Shelley

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 03 - 04

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri