The Mind Quotes

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

I see the US Open as glamorous. That's the word that comes to mind.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.