Mind Quotes
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.Pietro Aretino
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...Benjamin Disraeli
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
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.Dee Hock
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.Clive James
The mind is not sex - Typed.Margaret Mead
My own mind is my own church.Carl Lotus Becke
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.Titus Maccius Plautus
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.Unknown
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.Lord Thomas Dewa
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.Benjamin Franklin
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.David Joseph Schwartz
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.Wilberforce
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.Chinese prove
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.Biologist P. B. Medawa
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
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.Charles Dickens
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.Akhenaton
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.Alfred A. Montapert
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
