Mind Quotes

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.

Douglas Noel Adams

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer, The Odyssey

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

John Christian Bovee

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

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

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

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

Whitney M. Young Jr.

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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

Biologist P. B. Medawa

If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.

Henry C. Blinn

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

John Martin Fische

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.