Mind Quotes · Page 554

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

— Terry Pratchett

“Do not ever allow your mind to rob your soul of what belongs to it.”

— C. JoyBell C

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

— John Maynard Keynes

“He walked for surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.”

— Rachel Joyce

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

— Whoopi Goldberg

“If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.”

— Red Green

“Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can accomplish anything you put your mind to, all is takes is time, patience and determination.

— Rashida Rowe

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was,…

— Yann Martel

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other…

— Marianne Williamson

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin…

— Satya Nadella

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was down in Peru, and I was watching AAA in Spanish on my TV, and it just it blew my mind…

— Matt Sydal

“Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even…

— Joseph Heller

And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond…

— Donna Tartt

If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,…

— Carl Sagan

Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice…

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the…

— Napoleon Hill

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds…

— Aristotle

This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make…

— Josh McDowell

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that…

— Josie Loren

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

— Frank McCourt

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

— David Consuegra

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

— Grenville Kleiser

Everyone is entitled to change their mind when the facts do.

— Owen Jones

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

— Swami Vivekananda

Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

— Wang Wei

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

— Georges Rodenbach

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

— Marge Piercy

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

— Simon R. Green

For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The empires of the future belongs to the empires of the minds

— Hussein Nishah

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

— Gregory Maguire

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

— Ani DiFranco

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

— Edmund Burke

God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.

— Marcus Borg

“I feel the human mind is a jigsaw puzzle that I will never be able to solve.”

— Carolyn Jess-Cooke