Mind Quotes
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylo
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
The pen is the tongue of the mind.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.Marty Bucella
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
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
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.Aristotle
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.Fontenelle
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.Wolcott Gibbs
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
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
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.John Locke
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Dennis Roch
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
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
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
