Mind Quotes

Thomas hobbes - all generous minds have a horror of what are...
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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
Cicero - a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind....
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
Raquel welch - the mind can also be an erogenous zone....
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.
Mark Twain
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatche
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
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
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - - Massive, difficult to redirect, awe - Inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - Boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford, 1992
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
I never reprimand a boy in the evening - Darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.
Frank L. Boyden
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
He was so narrow - Minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
Black Elk
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napolean Hill
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Chuang Tzu
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteu
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
Anon.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley