The Mind Quotes

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

I've never been one to check for what the next person is doing. My circumstances and my mind have set me apart and I will never blend in.

I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.