Mind Quotes
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
A contented mind is a continual feast.American Prove
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.Robert Bakker, paleontologist
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
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
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.Charles Caleb Colton
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
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
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.Robert Ingersoll
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.Ausonius
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the 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
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.Cicero
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
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.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.Ovid
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
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 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
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.Eve
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.Charles Dickens
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.Heinrich Heine
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
