Mind Quotes

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
Leopold stein - to be intelligent is to be open - minded, active,...
Jack youngblood - i visualize things in my mind before i have to do...
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
William E. Holle
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
Greville
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
C. C. Colton
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen
Marcus aurelius, meditations? book three - one whose chief regard is for his own mind, and...
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous
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
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Nock
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
Bad mind, bad heart.
Anacharsis Cloots
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Juvenal
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffe
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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