Mind Quotes

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Hate pollutes the mind.

Author Unknown

Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.

John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it - As long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

F Scott

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.

Author Unknown

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webste

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

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

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Biologist P. B. Medawa

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells, 1903

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Vince Lombardi

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

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

C. Chesterfield

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Samuel Johnson

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus