Mind Quotes

Marcus aurelius, meditations? book three - one whose chief regard is for his own mind, and...
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Sophocles, trachiniae - a prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest...
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
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
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Earl of Chesterfield
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
James Rippe, M. D.
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
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
C. Chesterfield
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
Mark Twain
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
General Omar Bradley
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
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
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles, Antigone
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
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
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison, Biography
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Lester R Bittel