Mind Quotes
Peace visits not the guilty mind.Juvenal
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
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.Euripides
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.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.C. C. Colton
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.A. E. Houseman
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
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
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.William Hazlitt
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry Eisenberg
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.C. C. Colton
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?Laurence J. Pete
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison
