Mind Quotes
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.William Shakespeare
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.Albert Camus
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1 - Foot chain.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it.Dean Hawkins
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.Alfred A. Montapert
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.Barbara Tuchman
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Jean De la Fontaine
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.Cicero
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.George Santayana
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.Edward Albee
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
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
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
The sound of fresh rain run - Off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?Vladimir Nabokov
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.Carl Jung
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
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.Robert Frost
Hate pollutes the mind.Author Unknown
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.Albert Pike
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
