Mind Quotes

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Jim Morrison, Biography

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

John Wilkins

Great minds think alike.

Anon.

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.

Frank L. Boyden

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

Unknown

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

A contented mind is a continual feast.

American Prove

We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lewis Thomas

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Celia Green

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.

Unknown

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

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

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

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

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

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

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

Albert Einstein

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

D. A. Battista

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld