Mind Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Mind
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.
- The Buddha
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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