Quotes
Quotes about Mind
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Advice is like snowâthe softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
