Mind Quotes

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

George Washington Allston

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

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

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

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 their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Mia Hamm

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

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

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.

Anacharsis Cloots

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.

Mark Twain

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

W. G. Benham

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

David Joseph Schwartz

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

George Orwell