Mind Quotes
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
The mind can also be an erogenous zone.Raquel Welch
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.James Waddell Alexander, II
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.Adam Richardson
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Earl of Chesterfield
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.Edward Morgan Forste
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.Harry S Truman
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
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
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
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
One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us.Helen Krome
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
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
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.Henry Fielding
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.Maitri Upanishads
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.Celia Green
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
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_
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk.Laurence J. Pete
