Mind Quotes

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Walter Bagehot

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Bloom

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Robert Ingersoll

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Seneca

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dye

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

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".

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Dennis Roch

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Anonymous

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

Ernest Holmes

The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.

Tibetan Doctrine

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

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