Mind Quotes

The talmud - beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the...
Ralph waldo emerson - nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of...
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
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
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
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
Marvin minsky, the society of mind - in general we are least aware of what our minds...
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butle
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
Sir Walter Raleigh
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
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Thomas Fulle
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
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Alfred Victor Vigny
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Nock
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Sivanada
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
La Rochefoucauld
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
Ausonius
Hate pollutes the mind.
Author Unknown
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Author Unknown
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick