Mind Quotes

George washington allston - distinction is the consequence, never the object...
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
Jesse Shelley
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Honore de balzac - this coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind...
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
Albert einstein. - if a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of...
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
Joseph Rickaby
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barbe
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Unknown
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
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
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.
Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
Helen Hoover Santmye
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
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
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton, Dr. Faustus
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A Bartlett Giamatti
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
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Germaine De Stael
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt