Mind Quotes
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
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
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.Sophocles, Antigone
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.Thomas Jefferson
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
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
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
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 aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.George Orwell
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.Horace, Odes
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
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.Giovanni Boccaccio, Leitch, Vincent B. ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple - Minded...Plato, _Phaedrus_
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
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
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 7
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.Sir Francis Bacon
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.Gretel Ehrlich
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.Mary Wortley Montagu
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.Charles F. Kettering
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.Van Wyck Brooks
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
