Mind Quotes

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

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

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spense

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Anonymous

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

Anonymous

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Aristotle

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

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

Robert Ingersoll

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Albert Einstein

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

George J. Seidel

Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Barbara Tuchman

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".

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

William Fullbright

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three