Mind Quotes

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - - Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
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Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
John fitzgerald kennedy - our progress as a nation can be no swifter than...
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
N. P. Willis
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
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
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
En vogue, free your mind - free your mind, and the rest will follow. be...
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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein.
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 human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
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
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
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
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese prove
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
Black Elk
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.
John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Daniel Webste
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams