Mind Quotes

Kahlil gibran - to understand the heart and mind of a person,...
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Walt Disney
Great minds think independently, not alike.
Unknown
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
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca
Martin sage and sybil adelman, northern exposure, the bumpy road to love, 1991 - obsessions and fixations are not really my field....
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
N. P. Willis
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Lester R Bittel
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.
Author Unknown
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Paul Theroux
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Sir William Alton Jones
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
Carl Jung
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
Jeremy Taylo
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
William Hamilton
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
C. Chesterfield