Mind Quotes

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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F Scott

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

Napolean Hill

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Samuel Johnson

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawa

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

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

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Carl Jung

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.

Mark Twain

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Alfred Victor Vigny

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

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Frank Moore Colby

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

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

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Italian Prove

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.