Mind Quotes
My own mind is my own church.Carl Lotus Becke
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - - The mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.J. Krishnamutri
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.Francis Bacon
Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.Orison Swett Marden
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.Robert Cecil Day Lewis
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.Sterne
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
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung
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
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.Carl Lotus Becke
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.Robert Ingersoll
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.Samuel Johnson
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.Thomas Babington
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.Arthur Hays Sulzberge
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
