Mind Quotes

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
Edmund spense - it is the mind that maketh good or ill, that...
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Sir richard steele - reading is to the mind what exercise is to the...
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.
Richard Bethell
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.
Satchel Paige
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marcus aurelius antoninus - such as are your habitual thoughts, such also...
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
Mariah Carey
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
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 mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
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
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
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
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.
Author Unknown
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells, 1903
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andr Maurois
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
Anon.