Mind Quotes
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
ESSAY - - A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.Samuel Johnson
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Drugs are a bet with your mind.Jim Morrison, Biography
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.King Whitney Jr.
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.Marcus Tullius Cicero
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.Seneca
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.Charles R. Swindoll
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.Arthur Guiterman
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Publilius Syrus
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
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
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
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.Dr. A. B. Meldrum
The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one - Track mind.Endre Balogh
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
The pen is the tongue of the mind.Miguel de Cervantes
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
