Mind Quotes
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
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
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.Anonymous
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.Albert Einstein
The pen is the tongue of the mind.Miguel de Cervantes
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.Woody Allen
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
A storm broke loose in my mind.Albert Einstein
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.La Rochefoucauld
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.Francis Bacon
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.Buddha
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
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.Sir Richard Francis Burton
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.Juvenal, Satires
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
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
