Mind Quotes
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.Jawaharlal Nehru
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.Anonymous
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.Emad Hasan
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
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
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.Johathan Sacks
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
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
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.Frank L. Boyden
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.Lyndon B. Johnson
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.Thomas Hobbes
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.Akhenaton
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.George Gordon Byron
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo DaVinci
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
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
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .Phylos the Tibetan
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
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.Benjamin Franklin
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.Anonymous
