Mind Quotes

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatche
Denis watley - luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the...
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton, Dr. Faustus
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
Adam Richardson
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.
Eli Khamarov
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
Tom Gates
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
Alan Simpson
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
Calvin coolidge - christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state...
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Unknown
Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
John Ervine
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fulle
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
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
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.
Aldous Huxley
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau