Mind Quotes

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adle

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

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

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

Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.

Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.

Maitri Upanishads

ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Samuel Johnson

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.

J. Krishnamutri

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

John Ervine

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Walter Bagehot

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Charles F. Kettering

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi

It is the mind that makes the man.

Ovid

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Dennis Roch