Mind Quotes
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.James
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign.Albert Einstein
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.Seneca
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - - And quickly.Robert Anson Heinlein
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.Walter Bagehot
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.William Shakespeare
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
It is the mind that makes the man.Ovid
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Dr. Jonas Salk
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.Marcel Proust
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.Thomas Carlyle
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
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.Eve
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.William Shakespeare
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.Homer, The Odyssey
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.Sir Philip Sidney
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.J. Gustav White
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
