Mind Quotes
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.Harold R. McAlindon
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.Henry David Thoreau
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.Margaret Thatche
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.George Mathew Allen
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.Charles Dickens
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.Marcel Proust
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.Robert Cecil Day Lewis
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
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
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
