Mind Quotes

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Titus Maccius Plautus

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andr Maurois

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffe

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.

En Vogue, Free Your Mind

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinge

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

James Ramsey

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

No foreign policy - No matter how ingenious - Has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry Kissinge

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

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Biologist P. B. Medawa

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

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.

Author Unknown

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Franklin Kettering

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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