Mind Quotes

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
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
Johann von goethe - we do not have to visit a madhouse to find...
Confucius - ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night...
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
Michel de Montaigne
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
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
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
Cicero
Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.
En Vogue, Free Your Mind
D. h. lawrence - for whereas the mind works in possibilities, the...
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.
Juvenal
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
James Ramsey
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Frank H. Crane
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.
Edward Morgan Forste
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Earl of Chesterfield