Mind Quotes
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
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.Charles Franklin Kettering
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.William Adams
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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
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
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.Maria Mitchell
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
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.Elayne Boosle
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
