Mind Quotes

William adams - most of us are just about as happy as we make up...
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
H hahn blavatsky - after 3, a body has a mind of its own....
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
Arthur Guiterman
Thomas jefferson - enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and...
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Author Unknown
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffe
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.
Seneca
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.
J. Krishnamutri
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Seneca
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Jane Caminos
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald
Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.
En Vogue, Free Your Mind
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barbe
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmye
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten