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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace Mann

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mind moves matter.

Virgil

All happiness is in the mind.

English Proverb

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading musses up my mind.

Henry Ford

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.

Bob Dylan

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace Mann

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Horace Mann

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent van Gogh

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.

Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est).

Seneca

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Seneca

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Seneca

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

My purpose is to make my soul rhyme with my mind.

Saul Williams

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

W. Clement Stone

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

William Wilberforce

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind.

Rudyard Kipling

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Sri Chinmoy

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Walt Disney

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Confucius

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

Thucydides

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sir Francis Bacon

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menander

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Emmet Fox

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butler

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

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

Spanish Proverb

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Thomas H. Huxley

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Charles F. Kettering

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Henri Bergson

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas H. Huxley

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

William R. Alger

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

William R. Alger

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

Ayn Rand

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Margaret Cho

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Garrison Keillor

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

Tupac Shakur

I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me America.

Tupac Shakur

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

Baruch Spinoza

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

Publilius Syrus

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Chuang Tzu

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hannah Arendt

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffer

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

It was mind-boggling. It proved it's not what you know but who you know.

Peter Nathan

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

Phaedrus

In my mind, I was going home in a few days, so I just grabbed a couple pairs of jeans.

Tiffany Robinson

Let's not forget who these immigrants are. They work hard, they pay taxes, and many have U.S. born children. It gives them the peace of mind that they can continue to work legally.

Jose Lagos

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

Both have the same idea and would love to have a building with their names on the front, and I don't mind putting their names there in big-old letters.

Dave Walker

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

I've got a few things on my mind.

Bruce Beese

Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

In my mind, this activity was a major success for safety. It's probably one of the top things.

Jeffrey Williams

You can not percieve beauty but with a serene mind.

Henry David Thoreau

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Henry David Thoreau

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Agnes Martin

I think last year we had a lot of revenge in mind. They beat us by 40. We had a lot to prove to them.

Nick Dewitz

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.

Brian Aldridge

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

Achievement - You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Larry Kersten

To see those fingers just going, as a parent, you know ... he accomplished that on his own. When he made up his mind, trying to find his place (in the world), he wouldn't give up.

Pam Saylor

He was so ready and so focused and so determined to beat him. He had it in his mind that he was going to do it. I think that is the biggest battle you always have, inside your head, with a kid that's beaten you before.

Tom Arlis

This was a mental game for us. And we had the right mind-set.

Jason Dunn

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

Laurence Fishburne

The FBI will be going into each institution and assessing each population. It's encouraging that prison populations are getting looked at because in my mind they're breeding grounds for criminal and disruptive behavior.

Todd Slosek

He was one of the guys ... there was this perfect communication with him. When I heard he was getting this job, there was no doubt in my mind from a personality standpoint he was perfect for this job.

Bob Golic

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.

Charles Babbage

When the mind and body are in harmony, the mind works better. It gives everyone a sense of physical prowess.

Caroline Prohosky

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Cicero

I probably wouldn't mind just doing the Harry Potter movies and then making a career of conventions.

Matthew Lewis

It's theoretically possible that it could change ... but the likelihood that he'll change his mind is extraordinarily small.

Charles Sims

Sometimes it's hard to compare benefits or know that you're comparing them accurately. The federal endorsement itself is sometimes enough to give applicants the peace of mind they've made the right choice.

Robert Danbeck

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Langston Hughes

They don't mind killing patients.

Benedict Lucchesi

With this overlap in mind, (takeover) interest from third parties may well be limited.

Morgan Stanley

The nature of the whole insanity defense is that because of the state of mind you're in that you don't know the nature and consequences of what you're doing.

John Parrinello

It's in the back of your mind, but it is not something day in and day out you think about.

Brandon Kirsch

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

The only thing in my mind is I couldn't not do it.

Sarri Singer

I have no emotion. It's a blank in my mind.

Chris Harrington

Notre Dame has always been a special place in my mind. I've journeyed around, like a lot of coaches, but I always said if I had a chance [to coach at Notre Dame] I would do everything I could.

John Latina

The first thing they asked me was, 'Where are we?' ... The first thing that came to my mind was Florida, but that's who we were playing.

Adam Everett

People say 'Oh, it's just great to be nominated, we don't mind whether or not we win.' They're lying to themselves. Everybody wants to win.

Kaiser Chiefs

We?re not making any compromises to go faster. It?s a frame of mind. You can?t think about the clock.

David Morse

It's hard training with two events in mind. I'll be glad to make the decision. It was still a bit ragged, but getting better.

Lee Mcconnell

They don't have a plan; it's incoherent, ... They go to the most expensive [option]. It boggles the mind they would pay for hotels and not pay for vouchers for [permanent] housing.

Shirley Franklin

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

William Feather

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

Our mind protects ourselves by checking out.

Kelly Anderson

Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

Frank Oz

Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Joan Konner

We have that mind-set of where we know what we need to do to be better than we were last year and to [put ourselves] in a better situation.

Anthony King

He's helped a lot because he's been through this already. He had to fight for a job in Toronto. It helps to know what to expect, the mind-set to have, not trying to win a job with every swing, every ground ball.

Josh Barfield

I have not made up my mind. You are likely to get higher scores if you perform more difficult jumps. But if you don' t perform clean executions you may even get poorer results.

Li Nina

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

Minnie Pearl

I had that piece of mind entering the race. If I wouldn't have had that, I probably would have wrecked.

Richie Stevens

One little mistake can change your whole life. You have to keep that in mind.

G. Kwame Scruggs

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

William Hamilton

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''.

John Tillotson

I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.

Alexander Mcqueen

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

Age has been catching up on me a little bit -- the body, the mind, the fire in the stomach and the eyes a little bit have started to deteriorate.

Nasser Hussain

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

Misdirection is the key element. We can create a space where we give them something to look at to take their mind away from what they really should be seeing.

Chris Conti

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Satchel Paige

He's got pretty good hands and long arms. He will really improve our running game. He's what was had in mind at the position. We wouldn't have put it in if he wasn't here.

Joe Gardi

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadter

I was anxious all night. I wouldn't mind coaching in a game like that every Friday except it would shorten my life by a considerable number of years.

Scott Young

It's clear in my mind and it's clear in most people's minds, ... a fog of words.

Mike Ramsey

I have my own things on my mind and that's enough for me.

Jussi Markkanen

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

It's a living, ... But it's not a big money-making business. It's almost like a sport. A good party has a lot of energy: great energy, great people. What is great people? You can't define it. It's something exciting to your eyes and to your mind.

Marc Biron

You have to be clear and consistent when speaking your mind.

Sandra Cusack

It's mind-boggling, everything happening on Cliff or right off Cliff.

Steve Boote

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

He was working right until the last few days. He was a very active mind.

Kirk Purdy

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

John Perry Barlow

The one quality I will always remember about Eric was his fierce competitiveness ... he was not afraid to race anyone, at any stroke, at any distance. I encourage all of our competitors to go out and race with this quality in mind.

Jamie Morton

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

Andrej Lemanis

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Mason Cooley

A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

Albert Pike

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Richard Powers

You have the peace of mind of being able to contact your child and being able to have control over the situation.

Joe Farren

We were looking for a town-center concept. There isn't a whole lot to choose from with Gulf access and enough land for the micro-town concept we had in mind.

Darin Smith

There was no doubt in my mind that I could definitely play at this level. That's something I can do, just keep working hard and trying to better myself and learn from Kenny Irons.

Ben Tate

Right now I'm really not thinking about it all. It's great to break a record, but it's definitely not on my mind right now. Obviously, if we had won the game, breaking the record would have been a lot better.

Derek Hagan