Quotes
Quotes about Mind
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind.
The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that goldâbillions of dollars worthâhe could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.
A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike; but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,-- Will kill two for one, if you have any luck; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile; When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go, The two-inched hook is better, I know, Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry, When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.
United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. - edited by John Payne Collier,
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. â¢Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. â¢Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington Friends are born, not made. â¢Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. â¢Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. â¢Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. â¢Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. â¢Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. â¢Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. â¢F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. â¢François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. â¢Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. â¢George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. â¢Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. â¢Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. â¢William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. â¢Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. â¢Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. â¢Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. â¢Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. â¢Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. â¢Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. â¢Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. â¢Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. â¢C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. â¢Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. â¢John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. â¢Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. â¢Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. â¢Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. â¢Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. â¢Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. â¢Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. â¢Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. â¢Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. â¢Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. â¢George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. â¢Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! â¢Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. â¢Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. â¢Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. â¢Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. â¢Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. â¢Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. â¢Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. â¢Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. â¢Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. â¢The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. â¢La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. â¢Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. â¢Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. â¢Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. â¢Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. â¢Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. â¢Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. â¢Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. â¢Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. â¢Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. â¢Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. â¢Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. â¢George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. â¢Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.
