Mind Quotes

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Alexander hamilton - men give me credit for some genius. all the...
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
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
Speech is the mirror of the mind. Imago Animi Sermo Est.
Seneca
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Wolcott Gibbs
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Author Unknown
Lawrence of arabia, seven pillars of wisdom, suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, penguin edition p. 23 - all men dream: but not equally. those who dream...
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.
Endre Balogh
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
Charles Babbage
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Mark Twain
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent - Minded people.
Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
Anon.
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
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.
William Shakespeare
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
Joseph Rickaby
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A Bartlett Giamatti
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Mia Hamm
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
William Hamilton
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
Ludwig van Beethoven
When your world seems like too much to handle, Just take a deep breath and laugh. It clears the mind and frees your spirit.
Unknown
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson