The Mind Quotes

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'

I don't mind being criticized intelligently; although I don't love it.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.