Mind Quotes

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

E. W. Dijkstra

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

Sophocles, Trachiniae

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

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

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

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

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Hofstadte

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

Lord Thomas Dewa

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

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

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles, Antigone

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.

Confucius

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

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

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

The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.

Eli Khamarov

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Bloom

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

George Bernard Shaw

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha