Mind Quotes

Laurence j. pete - if a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered...
Tryon edwards - the secret of a good memory is attention, and...
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
Charles Dickens
Benjamin disraeli - nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe...
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Wilberforce
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.
Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
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
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
John McDonald
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
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Tillotson
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
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
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Author Unknown
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
Sir Walter Raleigh
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
C. C. Colton
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson