Mind Quotes
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.Robert Valett
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.Jean Ke
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.George Gissing
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.George Mathew Allen
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds - - And then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.Mortimer Adle
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.William Shakespeare
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.Charlotte Bronte
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.William Wordsworth
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of Chesterfield
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
A great mind becomes a great fortune.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
