Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Loren Eiseley

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

Lord Chesterfield

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Lord Chesterfield

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Malcolm Gladwell

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Malcolm Gladwell

Change your mind about something significant every day.

Mahalia Jackson

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Mahatma Gandhi

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Gene Wolfe

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

Gene Wolfe

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gay Talese

Listen, then make up your own mind.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Og Mandino

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Northrop Frye

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

Northrop Frye

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Os Guinness

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Om Puri

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Octavia Spencer

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

Octavia Spencer

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

Octavia Butler

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Norman Vincent Peale

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Emile M. Cioran

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Emile M. Cioran

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.