Mind Quotes

Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Arthur Guiterman

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Herman Hesse

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Demosthenes

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Frank Moore Colby

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.

Joseph Joubert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading musses up my mind.

Henry Ford

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

John Ervine

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.

P. B. Medawa

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

George Washington Allston

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Johann von Goethe

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Chuang - Tzu

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

Alfred A. Montapert

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatche

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.

Mark Twain

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Ingersoll

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

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

Rene Descartes

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

Sir William Alton Jones

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln