Mind Quotes

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Edward de Bono

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Ayn Rand

It has been my experience that a bi-product of order is preparedness. And if chance favors the prepared mind, then I am ready!

Steve Maraboli

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Robert Collier

My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large Down in the meadow, where is richer feed, And will not mind to hit their proper targe.

Henry David Thoreau

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Jodi Picoult

The empowered mind allows problems to seed personal growth.

Steve Maraboli

There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.

George Eliot

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

J.K. Rowling

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

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