Mind Quotes

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

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

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Lester R Bittel

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.

Douglas Noel Adams

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...

Plato, _Phaedrus_

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Bob Marley

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteu

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

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

Mentat Praye

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

James Waddell Alexander, II

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne