Mind Quotes
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.Jacqueline Cochran
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.Henry C. Blinn
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.Henry Kissinge
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.Seneca
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.Dwight D Eisenhowe
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
Bad mind, bad heart.Anacharsis Cloots
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
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.Robin Williams
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
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
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.William Shakespeare
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
