Mind Quotes
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.Mark Twain
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.William Shakespeare
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.William Shakespeare
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.Edmund Spense
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
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
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.Ernest Hemingway
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.John Locke
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
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
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.Colin Wilson
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca
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
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
A storm broke loose in my mind.Albert Einstein
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.Marty Bucella
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.Author Unknown
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.Celia Green
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
