Mind Quotes

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

George Orwell

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

William Shakespeare

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.

Adam Smith

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Herman Hesse

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Watley

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Chinese prove

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.

P. B. Medawa

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Titus Maccius Plautus

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

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

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

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 weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Elayne Boosle

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.

Confucius

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivanada

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Rig Veda

I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.

Robert Bakker, paleontologist

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers

The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead