Mind Quotes

• Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Great
  • Truth
  • History

• If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! laughs … In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dream

• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Best

• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Entrepreneur

• An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

  

  Bob Nelson
  • Mind
  • Door

• People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• Well I'm running down the roadTryin' to loosen my load,I've got seven women on my mind,Four that wanna own me,Two that wanna stone me,One says she's a friend of mine.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Women
  • She
  • Running

• I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Pain

• Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • Important
  • Control
  • Health

• If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Study

• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Chance

• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Mind
  • American
  • Culture

• I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • People
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Happiness
  • Meditation

• A lot of people want to keep me off my feet. I say a lot of things that are on my mind; I'm a very honest person. On top of that I'm a weird figure for hip-hop: this person who doesn't drink, smoke or do any of those weird things.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • People
  • Weird
  • Honest

• To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Good
  • Mind

• Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Nature

• Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Learning

• You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can't have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Senses

• the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

  

  William Landay
  • Guilty
  • Doe
  • Guilt

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