Mind Quotes

Benjamin disraeli - knowledge must be gained by ourselves. mankind...
Sir richard francis burton - broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state...
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
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
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
C. C. Colton
Strength is a matter of the made - Up mind.
John Beeche
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W. G. Benham
Daniel webste - if we work upon marble, it will perish if we work...
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F Scott
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
Adam Richardson
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
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
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells, 1903
The superior man... does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.
Confucius
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
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
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
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Author Unknown
Have a variety of interests... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Mathew Allen
The third - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first - Rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
Arthur Guiterman
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
William Hamilton
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
Joseph Joubert
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau