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| Bevara ett öppet sinne och ett varmt hjärta. | Phil Jackson (1945-2004) |
| Du kan fängsla mig, tortera mig och till och med döda mig. Men du kan aldrig fängsla mina tankar. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Jag har lärt mig att göra mitt sinne stort som universum, så att det ska finnas utrymme för motsägelser. | Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-1940) |
| Der er særlig en ting, som tiltrækker mig ved et menneskes tanke i uroen. Et sind, som ikke er uroligt irriterer og keder mig. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers | Agnes Thornton |
| The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions | Antony Jay (1930-) |
| It is the business of little minds to shrink | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. | Carson McCullers (1917-1967) |
| The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations | Celia Green |
| There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| Great minds don't think alike, for that is why they are great | Derek Weidl |
| There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. | Fairfax Cone (1903-1977) |
| Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. | Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) |
| Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. | General George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) |
| Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind | Gene Fowler (1890-1960) |
| It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. | George Gissing (1857-) |
| I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief | Gerry Spence (1929-) |
| Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
| Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. | Howard Chandler Christy |
| Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. | Sir James Dewar |
| Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. | John Finley |
| Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
| The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. | Julius Charles Hare |
| Power of mind is infinite while brawn is limited. | Koichi Tohei |
| People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. | Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) |
| If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart | Marilyn vos Savant (1946-) |
| He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance, Harper's irony, Hud's disdain. | Maureen Dowd (1952-) |
| If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India | Max Mueller |
| It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. | Mentat Prayer |
| A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. | Minor White |
| It is the mind that wins or loses | Nepal Proverb |
| I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. | Penny Ward Moser |
| The finite mind does not require to grasp the infinitude of truth, but only to go forward from light to light | Peter Bayne |
| If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit | Piet Hein (1905-1996) |
| The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The mind can also be an erogenous zone | Raquel Welch (1940-) |
| People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. | Robert Keith Leavitt |
| the mind is a wonderfull servant, but a terrible master | Robin Sharma |
| Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. | Rodan of Alexandria |
| It is the mind that makes the body. | Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) |
| Minds ripen at very different ages. | Stevie Wonder (1950-) |
| I see the mind of a five year old as a volcano with two vents : destructiveness and creativeness | Sylvia Warner |
| If we can open your mind to laughter, we can slip in a little information | Virginia Tooper |
| Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world. | Wilford O. Cross |
| Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. | Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) |
| Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind | Zen Proverb |
| Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. | Akhenaton (1968-) |
| The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. | Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized | Benjamin Haydon (1786-1846) |
| Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,non but ourselves can free our minds! | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil | Charles Simmons |
| If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. | Chinese Proverbs |
| We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. | Donal Henahan |
| The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers | Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) |
| It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor | Edmund Spenser |
| A closed mind is a dying mind | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Only the just man enjoys peace of mind | Epicurus |
| I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion | Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) |
| The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it | Francois Fenelon |
| The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. | George Moore (1873-1958) |
| Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it | Heywood C. Broun (1888-1939) |
| Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. | John Bunyan (1628-1688) |
| Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain | John Calvin (1509-1564) |
| Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame | John Lyly (1554-1606) |
| A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind | John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) |
| Mind your driving. | L. M. Heroux |
| Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower | Maxwell Maltz |
| My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking | Phaedrus (15-50) |
| Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven. | Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) |
| I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. | Shania Twain (1965-) |
| While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| A mind too active is no mind at all | Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) |
| It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. | Thomas Hood (1799-1845) |
| Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) |
| I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me. | Zen Proverb |
| Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind | Zen Proverb |
| You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. | Chinese Proverbs |
| I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so | Ernestine Rose |
| I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief | Gerry Spence (1929-) |
| The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood | Chinese Proverbs |
| Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The smaller the mind the greater the conceit | Aesop |
| The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. | Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
| Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| Have a strong mind and a soft heart. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent | Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) |
| Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Your mind is continuously projecting – projecting itself | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990) |
| I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| None but ourselves can free our minds. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. | Bob Nelson |
| A full mind is an empty bat. | Branch Rickey (1881-1965) |
| Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences | Chinese Proverbs |
| A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds | Chinese Proverbs |
| Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The march of the human mind is slow | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| 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 (1864-1943) |
| I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief | Gerry Spence (1929-) |
| In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| Never to forget, your mind is greater than our mighty universe... | Helene Lagerberg |
| The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it | Jean Rostand (1894-1977) |
| Too much gravity argues a shallow mind | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| The human mind is our fundamental resource. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| A mind not to be changed by place or time, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. | Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) |
| An improper mind is a perpetual feast | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| The mind of each man is the man himself | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India | Max Mueller |
| It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. | Mick Jagger (1943-) |
| The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Wildly my mind beats against you, yet my soul obeys. | Phantom of the Opera |
| The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Hold your nose to the grindstone | Proverb |
| Mind over matter | Proverb |
| He that rewards flattery, begs it | Proverb |
| A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. | Robert Collier (1885-) |
| Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| A great mind becomes a great fortune. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| My mind is my own church. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) |
| Minds differ still more than faces | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. | Wendell Berry |
| The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| Dip him in the river who loves water. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires constantly to be wound up | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. | Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) |