Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Benjamin Franklin

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Benjamin Franklin

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Barbra Streisand

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

Avril Lavigne

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

Arthur Conan Doyle

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Arthur C. Clarke

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

bell hooks

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Arundhati Roy

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

Arundhati Roy

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Ariel Garten

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Arianna Huffington

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

Anthony Trollope

The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

Diana Wynne Jones

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Desiderius Erasmus

The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

Demetri Martin

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

Dean Koontz

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Dean Koontz

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Dean Koontz

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Dean Koontz

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Daniel H. Pink

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

Daniel Goleman

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.