It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan.
W. Clement Stone
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
W. Clement Stone
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
Henry David Thoreau
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Maria Mitchell
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
Shania Twain
A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
Charles Caleb Colton
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
Maxwell Maltz
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Charles Simmons
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
Never to forget, your mind is greater than our mighty universe...
Helene Lagerberg
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
George Moore
Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf Karsh
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
Wildly my mind beats against you, yet my soul obeys.
Phantom Of The Opera
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland
An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
Bob Nelson
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is the mind that makes the body.
Sojourner Truth
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
John Bunyan
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Julius Charles Hare
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
Alexandre Dumas Père
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. .
Abraham Lincoln
Mind your driving.
L. M. Heroux
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Benjamin Haydon
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.
Wilford O. Cross
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean De La Bruyere
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Daniel Webster
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George Orwell
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
Zen Proverb
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Senator Everett Dirksen
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