Mind Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938

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

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

Anonymous

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

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

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Gretel Ehrlich

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Dr. Jonas Salk

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Kahlil Gibran

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

Bruce Burton

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Mark White

He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.

Black Elk

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

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

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi