Mind Quotes

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Thomas Babington
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spense
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Alfred Victor Vigny
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
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawa
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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 simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadte
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
Greville
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.
E. W. Dijkstra
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
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