Mind Quotes

George bernard shaw - if the lesser mind could measure the greater as a...
Christopher morley - read, every day, something no one else is...
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.
Unknown
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
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Thomas a kempis, imitation of christ - and when he is out of sight, quickly also is he...
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.
Laurence J. Pete
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
Vince Lombardi
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
Kelly Le Brock
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
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
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
Adam Richardson
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace, Odes
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
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