Mind Quotes

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
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
A. e. houseman - the mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be...
Miguel de cervantes - the pen is the tongue of the mind....
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
A storm broke loose in my mind.
Albert Einstein
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parke
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Mathew Allen
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Martin Barzun
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.
Napolean Hill
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.
Author Unknown
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein.
Milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being - when the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent...
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.
Unknown
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
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
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.
Unknown
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
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.
Eve
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.
Endre Balogh
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
Michael Crichton, Prey
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
Phaedrus
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown