Mind Quotes - page 3

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. (Charlie Chaplin)
Time bears away all things, even the mind. View quote
Virgil
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. View quote
Aeschylus
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. View quote
Bruce Lee
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke)
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind. View quote
Robert Jordan
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. View quote
Henry James
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. (Joseph Addison)
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. View quote
William Penn
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. View quote
Steve Biko
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. View quote
Beatrix Potter
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. View quote
Brian Aldiss