Mind Quotes

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid
Pietro aretino - a high heart ought to bear calamities and not...
Dennis roch - if it takes a lot of words to say what you have...
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander, II
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang - Tzu
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Louis pasteu - chance favors the prepared mind....
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
La Rochefoucauld
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
Anon.
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F. Gilde
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Higginson
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Seneca
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold
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
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. Huxley
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald