Mind Quotes

Albert einstein - if a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of...
Frank h. crane - you often get a better hold upon a problem by...
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
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
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
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
Anon.
Henry c. blinn - if you think that you can think about a thing,...
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Daniel Webste
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
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
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
William Penn
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmye
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
Maitri Upanishads
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. Huxley
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Alfred A. Montapert
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
Unknown
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
Virgil
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841