Mind Quotes

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.

Laurence J. Pete

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.

Anonymous

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Red Barbe

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

George Washington Allston

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Maitri Upanishads

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Mia Hamm

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Watley

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895

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

Harold R. McAlindon

Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.

Albert Einstein

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

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

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

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Sir Philip Sidney

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

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.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Greville

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Author Unknown

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.

Chinese Prove

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton