Mind Quotes - page 6

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. (George Boole)
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. View quote
Gary Gygax
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. View quote
Colin Powell
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The possession of anything begins in the mind. View quote
Bruce Lee
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. View quote
Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow. View quote
Edmund Burke
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. View quote
Samuel Johnson
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. View quote
Maya Angelou
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. View quote
Jonas Salk