Mind Quotes
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
Morality is the weakness of the mind.Arthur Rimbaud
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.Johann von Goethe
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.Mentat Praye
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
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.George Santayana
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.Florence Nightingale
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
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".
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 da Vinci
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.Robert
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.Henry David Thoreau
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
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
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.Orison Swett Marden
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.Sir Philip Sidney
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
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
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.Matthew Arnold
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?Albert Einstein.
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.Eric Pio
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
