The Mind Quotes

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

Traits don't change, states of mind do.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.

It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.

The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.