Mind Quotes
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
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
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.Bertrand Russell
A great mind becomes a great fortune.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.George F. Gilde
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
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.Eduard Hanslick
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.A. A. Milne
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.Anonymous
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.Ernest Holmes
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.Thomas Babington
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.George Bernard Shaw
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
