Mind Quotes
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.Margaret Thatche
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.Thomas H. Huxley
All the resources we need are in the mind.Theodore Roosevelt
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Vince Lombardi
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.George Gordon Byron
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.Arthur Hays Sulzberge
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.Francis Bacon
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
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 troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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
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
Peace visits not the guilty mind.Juvenal
Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.John Ervine
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
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.Martin Luthe
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
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.Albert Einstein
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
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
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.George Bernard Shaw
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.Unknown
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.Sophocles, Trachiniae
