Mind Quotes

Tryon edwards - the secret of a good memory is attention, and...
Dorothy parke - i might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a...
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
Jean De la Fontaine
Antoine de saint - exupery - a pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody...
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Martin Fische
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese prove
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
Joseph Joubert
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
All the resources we need are in the mind.
Theodore Roosevelt
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.
Adam Smith
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
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
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
James Ramsey
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.
Helen Krome
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge