Mind Quotes

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

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

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Henry Fielding

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

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Robert Ingersoll

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

La Rochefoucauld

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

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

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Wilberforce

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Mathew Allen

My own mind is my own church.

Carl Lotus Becke

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Kahlil Gibran

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill - Conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

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

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

John Wilkins

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid