Mind Quotes

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.

Harry S Truman

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Author Unknown

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffe

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 Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.

Dean Hawkins

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

The Dhammapada

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 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 great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

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

They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.

Edward Morgan Forste

The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A. A. Milne

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Mentat Praye

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Adam Richardson

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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon