‘Tis the
sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel
De Montaigne
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 centered 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 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 ruffled mind makes a restless
pillow. - Charlotte Bronte
All the
resources we need are in the mind. - Theodore Roosevelt
All things may corrupt when minds
are prone to evil. - Ovid
An open mind, like an open window,
should be screened to keep the bugs out. - Virginia Hutchinson
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but ‘silent’ does
not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the
nature of reality. - Lama Yeshe
Control of the mind is the key to happiness. It is the kind of
virtue and the force behind all true achievement. It is owing to lack of
control that various conflicts arise in man’s mind. If he is to control them,
he must learn not to give free rein to his longings and inclinations and should
try to live a self-governed, pure and calm life. - K. Sri Dhammananda
Cultivation to the mind is as
necessary as food to the body. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not dwell in the past, do not
dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - The
Buddha
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquillity
of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may
do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from
inanition. - Grenville Kleiser
Every human mind is a great
slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to
do. - Edgar F. Roberts
Everything is in the mind. That is
where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting
it. - Mae West
Familiar things
happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind
to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead
Gallantry of the mind is saying
the most empty things in an agreeable manner. - Duc de La
Rochefoucauld
Great minds are
like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving
I would rather have a mind opened
by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence
If any part of
your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind – follow your
mind. - Ayn Rand
If the mind is not contrived, it
is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature
transparent and clear. - Unknown
If you correct your mind, the rest
of your life will fall into place. - Lao
Tzu
If you don't
control your mind, someone else will. -
John Allston
If you let cloudy water settle, it
will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will
also become clear. - Unknown
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant
water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does
inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
It is a man’s own mind, not his
enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – The Buddha
It is only when the mind is controlled and is kept to the right road
of orderly progress that it becomes useful for its possessor and for society. A
disorderly mind is a liability both to its owner and to others, all the havoc
wrought in the world is wrought by men who have not learned the way of mind
control, balance and poise. - K. Sri Dhammananda
It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us
free. - Dilgo Rinpoche
It is our minds
that make our lives so homeless. - John O'Donohue
It is the mark of an
educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
It is the mind
that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. - Ovid
Keep your mind humble, and open to
new ideas. You will learn much more in the process, and continue to develop as
a human being. - Unknown
Learn deeply of the
Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. - Joseph
Addison
Little
minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington
Irving
Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in
the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense
matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda
Man’s mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are not
prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. -Franklin Roosevelt
Mind is the Master-power that
moulds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought,
and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He
thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. - James
Allen
Minds are like parachutes; they
work best when open. - Lord Thomas Dewar
Minds of
moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. - Duc
de La Rochefoucauld
Minds that have nothing to confer
find little to perceive. - William Wordsworth
My
mind is at peace knowing that what was meant for me will never miss
me, and that which misses me was never meant for me. - Unknown
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such
present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss. - Edward Dyer
No matter where
the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere. - W.H. Davies
No mind can run continually and remain
effective. Remember, even a paddy field needs a good rest after a harvest in
order to produce quality crops in the future. - Unknown
Quiet people have the loudest
minds. - Stephen Hawking
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however,
it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart
Tolle
No mind is much
employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our
moments. - Smauel Johnson
No mind, however
loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. - Arnold Bennett
Nothing is so
bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. - Seneca
Nothing mattered except states of
mind, chiefly our own. - John Maynard Keynes
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. - Benjamin Disraeli
Old minds are like old
horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John
Quincy Adams
One
cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts, but one can have a mind that
is content with whatever thoughts fill it at the moment. - Jonathan Lockwood
Huie
One man that has
a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. - George
Bernard Shaw
One’s mind has a way of making
itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to
do. - Arthur C. Benson
Only in quiet waters do things
mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of
the world. - Hans Margolius
Our minds are like our stomachs;
they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with
fresh appetite. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Our Minds can be wonderful, but at
the same time they can be our very worst enemy. - Sogyal Rinpoche
Paradoxically,
as the mind becomes simpler, it can perceive greater complexity. - William
Hamilton
Quiet minds
cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their
own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. - Robert Luis Stevenson
Research has clearly demonstrated
that the subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and
destructive thought-impulses, and will drive our actions based on the material
we used in nourishing it. - Unknown
Since everything is a reflection of our minds …
everything can be changed by our minds. - The
Buddha
Some minds are
like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. - Unknown
Strength of mind rests in sobriety;
for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. - Pythagoras
The deepest sin
against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas
Huxley
The empires of the future are
empires of the mind. - Winston Churchill
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 human mind
is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow
worse. - Samuel Richardson
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 is a
dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use
it. - Michel Montaigne
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 more
vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling
immediate pain. -
Unknown
The mind is not a vessel to be
filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
The mind is the limit. As long as
the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as
long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can
understand the mind, everything else is included. - Bodhidharma
The mind is unstable and flighty. It wanders
wherever it desires. Therefore it is good to control the mind. A disciplined mind brings happiness. - Buddha
The mind of man
is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly
wound up. - William Hazlit
The mind of man is like an
unbroken horse that would go anywhere except where you wanted it to. - Unknown
The mind should
be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for
the rest. - Seneca
The most
disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of
the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest
clouds. - Francois Rene Chateaubriand
The most
distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another’s point of view; to put one’s self in another’s place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from
one’s own. To be willing to test a new idea; to be
able to live on the edge of difference in all matters intellectually; to
examine without heat the burning question of the day; to have imaginative
sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind, steadiness and poise of feeling,
cool calmness of judgment, is to have culture. - A. H. R.
Fairchild
The only prison we need to escape
from is the prison of our own minds. - Unknown
The pain of the mind is worse than
the pain of the body. - Unknown
The primary sign
of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in
one place and linger in his own company. - Seneca
The subconscious
mind is a mental fireless cooker where ideas simmer and develop. - Unknown
The treacherous, unexplored areas
of the world are not in continents or seas; they are in the minds and hearts of
men. - Unknown
There are no chaste minds. Minds
copulate wherever they meet. - Eric Hoffer
There are no limitations to the
mind except those we acknowledge. - Napoleon Hill
There are so many powers within
the mind of man that have yet to be tapped, that thinking of its possible
limitations may be considered a joke. - Unknown
'Tis the sharpness of our mind
that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel De Montaigne
To the dull mind nature is leaden.
To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Turn your mind to yourself, and try to find pleasure within
yourself, and you will always find therein an infinite source of pleasure ready
for your enjoyment. - K. Sri
Dhammananda
We cannot see
things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must form our minds by reading
deep rather than wide. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships
or fears. - Alice Walker
What the mind of man
can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
Where there is an open mind, there
will always be a frontier. - Dorthea Brande
Within our
impure mind the pure one is to be found. - Hui Neng
Your mind is like a garden. Tend
it well by filling it with positive, encouraging, and faith-building thoughts
throughout the day. Disorder sets in when the garden is not tended to for some
time; the same goes for our mind if we neglect it too long. - Unknown
Your mind can be your best friend and your worst enemy. - Marinela Reka
Your mind is
what makes everything else work. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Your own mind is
a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your
permission. - Arnold
Bennett
