Mind Quotes

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
Bob marley - emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but...
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.
Anacharsis Cloots
Ronald reagan - the best minds are not in government. if any...
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
Juvenal - a healthy mind in a healthy body....
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
Washington Irving
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
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
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
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles, Antigone
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
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
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.
Maitri Upanishads
The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
Raquel Welch
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
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 Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra, physicist
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts