Mind Quotes
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.Toledo Blade
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.Eduard Hanslick
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.William Blake
Chance favors the prepared mind.Louis Pasteu
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.William Adams
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.John Brown
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.Ausonius
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
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
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
