Mind Quotes
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.Cato, Roman statesman and historian
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.Sarah Orne Jewett
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.Henry Kissinge
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.D. A. Battista
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.George Gordon Byron
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.Walter Bagehot
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Dennis Roch
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry Eisenberg
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
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
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.La Rochefoucauld
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
