Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFaced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth GalbraithMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoThere is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
BuddhaMind, word and act, all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play, that is the genuine path.
Sai BabaThe stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
BuddhaAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil GibranSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleIt hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich SchillerInflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.
BuddhaA strong mind always hopes and has always cause to hope.
Thomas CarlyleA vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma GandhiThe evils of the body are murder, theft and adultery, of the tongue lying, slander, abuse and idle talk, of the mind covetousness, hatred and error.
BuddhaThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
BuddhaThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil GibranPride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward BeecherGod's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AeschylusAs selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen KellerThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinI must have a prodigious quantity of mind, it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark TwainThe power of Thought the magic of the Mind!
Lord ByronAs every divided kingdom falls so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da VinciWe are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug, and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel ProustAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
AristotleYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you, as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil GibranPurification of the mind is attained through humility, integrity and a sense of justice.
Sai BabaThat in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas PaineI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingOne who drinks the nectar of the Good Law lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Dhamma as realized by the Noble Ones.
BuddhaDespair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie ChaplinThe energy of the mind is the essence of life.
AristotleJealousy 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 - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Robert A. HeinleinAny system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.
Thomas PaineThe process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
John Kenneth GalbraithLet me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
William ShakespeareA mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane AustenI am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler YeatsThe main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
Rabindranath TagoreThose who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
BuddhaIgnorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.
ConfuciusEducating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
AristotleThe purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de MontaigneDrag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it.
Mark TwainIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
AristotleTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaA healthy body is the best container for a healthy mind. A healthy heart is the temple of God.
Sai BabaA family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
BuddhaEmotionally in our minds we get so filled with resentments, where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
Chuck PalahniukThough the dungeon, the scourge and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LucretiusA wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.
ChanakyaA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind, and I like to write standing up.
Ernest HemingwayAll things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
OvidGames lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin FranklinIn a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAnger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
BuddhaIn the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth GalbraithTo keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
BuddhaThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonHe who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.
ConfuciusFancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning, at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!
Sai BabaWhen a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
Bill CosbyIt is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
AristotleSeek ye first the good things of the mind and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis BaconThe aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
John Dewey'Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander PopeA multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William WordsworthWe are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
BuddhaThere's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William ShakespeareActivity must be dedicated to God, the Highest Good. Then it will provide health to body and mind.
Sai BabaDeath 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 AureliusThe defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body, after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund FreudAll acts of living become bad by ten things and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue and three evils of the mind.
BuddhaLove to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless winged and unconfined and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare