Mind Quotes

Celia green - the remarkable thing about the human mind is its...
Sir richard francis burton - broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state...
A contented mind is a continual feast.
American Prove
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Pete
They go forth with well - Developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - Not a cold one. The difference is important.
Edward Morgan Forste
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
Gretel Ehrlich
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.
Benjamin Harrison
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Confucius - ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night...
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Seneca
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinge
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Sir William Alton Jones
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Author Unknown
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
South
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
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
George Washington Allston
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
T. S. Eliot
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra, physicist
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
When even one American - - who has done nothing wrong - - Is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - - Then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton