Mind Quotes
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
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.Francis Bacon
Reading musses up my mind.Henry Ford
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.Alec Bourne
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Jean De la Fontaine
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
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.Anonymous
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
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.James
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.William A. Orton
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
The highest states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.Carl Jung
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.William Fullbright
