Mind Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

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

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Tillotson

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

Author Unknown

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

Abraham Lincoln

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dye

I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.

Mariah Carey

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

Benjamin Disraeli

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle