Mind Quotes

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Thinking, Talking

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Whatever, Makes, Means

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.
Bill Cosby

True, Integrity, Saying

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

Hate, Yourself, Forget

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher

Change, Ten, Rarely

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington

Together, Made, Getting

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko

Weapon, Oppressor, Oppressed

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand

Gun, Morality, Force

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine

Religion, True, Cannot

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes

May, Wine, Bring

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack Obama

Special, Sit, Class

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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma

Everything, Understand, Else

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
Phaedrus

Thinking, May, Sometimes

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Success, Fear, Focus

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

Human, Lives, Attitudes

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Work, Peace

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato

Knowledge, Hold, Compulsion

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

Women, Men, Nothing

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

Success, Peace, Best

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Groucho Marx

Head, Beat, Club

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

Death, Hard, Service

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Power, Nothing

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Beautiful, End

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill

Until, Whipped, Quits

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill

Yourself, Long, Enough

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Change, Bad

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Everything, Religious, Highest

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck

Change, Good, History

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire

Human, Virtue, Virginity

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