Mind Quotes

Phaedrus - the mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it...
Buddha - anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of...
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolt
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.
Eve
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
Seneca - it is the sign of a week mind to be unable to...
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich
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
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
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
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred A. Montapert
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Franklin Kettering
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?
Bruce Burton
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle