Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The Mind

‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel De Montaigne

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest. - Robert Reed

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. - Chinese Proverb

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore

A mind at peace, a mind centred and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. - Wayne Dyer

A mind grows by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. - Unknown

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. - Cicero

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. - Louis L 'Amour

A narrow mind has a broad tongue. - Arabian Proverb

A negative mind will never give you a positive life. - Unknown

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does Self-awareness effect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady Self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. - Lawrence M. Krauss

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. - Ruckett

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - Eliza Cook

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. - Unknown

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. - George Bernard Shaw

All the resources we need are in the mind. - Theodore Roosevelt

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. - Ovid

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body. - Benjamin Whichcote

An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. - Virginia Hutchinson

As an orchard when manured produces pleasant trees and luscious fruit, so does a cultivated mind produce pure thoughts and noble actions. - William Scott Downey

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