Mind Quotes

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Unknown
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
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
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
Jeremy Taylo
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
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
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Author Unknown
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
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Martin Fische
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry Kissinge
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
George Santayana
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffe
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge