Mind Quotes
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.Richard Bethell
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.Gretel Ehrlich
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.Robert Valett
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
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
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Henri Bergson, 1859 - 1938
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.Robert Bakker, paleontologist
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.Kelly Le Brock
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
The idle mind knows not what it wants.Ennius
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.Robin Williams
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.Maitri Upanishads
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.Anna Freud
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.William Penn
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.Unknown
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
After 3, a body has a mind of its own.H Hahn Blavatsky
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
