Mind Quotes

Ausonius - things that we hear pass quicker from our minds...
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Pete
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Tom robbins - meditation... disolves the mind. it erases...
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Greville - i hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as...
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann von Goethe
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Jane Caminos
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Author Unknown
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
C. C. Colton
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
William James
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W. G. Benham
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
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
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Blaise Pascal
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal - Intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
Robert
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A. E. Houseman
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
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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