Mind Quotes

Anna freud - creative minds have always been known to survive...
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
D. a. battista - poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the...
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
Matthew arnold - it is almost impossible to exaggerate the...
Great minds think alike.
Anon.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.
Dean Hawkins
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Germaine De Stael
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Johathan Sacks
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
Ausonius
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
Claude M. Bristol
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
Bertrand Russell
To be intelligent is to be open - Minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
Leopold Stein
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South