Mind Quotes
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Gustav Jung
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.Epictetus
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Maya Angelou
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first - Class bodies on them.Author Unknown
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?Author Unknown
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
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
Law is mind without reason.Aristotle
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.Richard Hofstadte
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.Juvenal
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.Frank H. Crane
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this - when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.Homer, The Odyssey
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.William Shakespeare
