Mind Quotes
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?Author Unknown
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.Seneca
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
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
The inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.Eli Khamarov
A mind too active is no mind at all.Theodore Roethke
Every man... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.John Ervine
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.Kahlil Gibran
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
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.Anonymous
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
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butle
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
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
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
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.Author Unknown
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Jean De la Fontaine
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
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.Florence Nightingale
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
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
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.Gerry Spence
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
