Mind Quotes
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
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 dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
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
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
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.Akhenaton
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.Walt Disney
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
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Jean De la Fontaine
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...Benjamin Disraeli
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.Charles Dickens
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.Andr Maurois
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.Chuang - Tzu
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.Thomas H. Huxley
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?Bruce Burton
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
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.Alexander Graham Bell
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.Orison Swett Marden
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.Author Unknown
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.Alfred A. Montapert
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - - Success.Edmund Burke
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
