Mind Quotes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Human, Another

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

Greatest, Brain, Same

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Teacher, Greatest

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness, Body, Troubled

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Passion, Cannot

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson

Education, Darkness, General

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Human, Body, Decay

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, American, Principle

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach

Change, Future, Past

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

Change, Down, Road

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Audrey Hepburn

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson

Human, Natural, Cause

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Work, Hard

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Event, Chief

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu

Whole, Universe, Surrenders

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Power, Reality, Words

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi

Society, Political, Human

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Experience, Old, Stretched

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Human, Around, Progress

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius

Power, Strength, Find

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

Art, Find, Face

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Speech, Fortunes, Lest

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt

Society, Morals, Educate

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

Fair, Villain, Terms

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee

Begins, Possession

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran

Heart, Person, Understand

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James

Yourself, Judge, Everything

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar

Goal, Before, Actually

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