Mind Quotes
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
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.Michel de Montaigne
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.John Locke
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.John Beeche
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.Author Unknown
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
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
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.Jean Nathan Mille
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day.Marty Bucella
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.Orison Swett Marden
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
Drugs are a bet with your mind.Jim Morrison, Biography
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.George Bernard Shaw
Reading musses up my mind.Henry Ford
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.Arthur Hays Sulzberge
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang - Tzu
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
