Mind Quotes

Earl of chesterfield - i find, by experience, that the mind and the body...
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Daniel Webste
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
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
Sophocles, trachiniae - a prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest...
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
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
W. g. benham - when you see a snake, never mind where he came...
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Frank Moore Colby
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Seneca
The mind is not sex - Typed.
Margaret Mead
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Barbara Garrison
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 greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Ennius
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
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.
Thomas Dewa
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
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 pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
Joseph Joubert
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas H. Huxley
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.
Juvenal
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
Sir Edward Dye
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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