Thursday 25 October 2018

Mind - Quotes

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes

The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. - Unknown

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle

The human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. - Samuel Richardson

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. - Isaac Asimov

The idle mind knows not what it wants. - Ennius

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

The knowing mind is active in attending, selecting and interpreting; but it must attend to, select from and interpret what is presented to it; and therefore, it must be passive as well as active. - Unknown

The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through. - Sam Shepard

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. - James Russell Lowell

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. - St. Augustine

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

The mind has an extraordinary power to create illusion through belief through escapes, through dogmas. - J. Krishnamurti

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlour remains clean. - Henry Ward Beecher

The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. - Michel Montaigne

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. - David Mamet

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. - John Milton

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost everything; if ill-packed, next to nothing. - Augustus William Hare & Julius Charles Hare

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