Mind Quotes

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

John Wilkins

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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

William James

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Aristotle

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Hofstadte

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.

Mark Twain

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.

Chinese Prove

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

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Euripides

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

The Talmud

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

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred A. Montapert

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

William R Allen

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.

Maitri Upanishads

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

John Sloan

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Walt Disney

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal