My Mind Quotes

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

The thing about cats, as you may find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

You cannot have a perfect mind. You can have a perfect heart.

The best that you can do for your mind is to have no in-between state in your heart.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.