Mind Quotes

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Dennis Roch

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

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

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

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

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.

George Gordon Byron

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.

Black Elk

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Francis Bacon

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

F Scott

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

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

C. Chesterfield

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

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Washington Irving

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

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Washington Irving