Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Emile M. Cioran

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Emile M. Cioran

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.

Ellen Glasgow

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Ellen G. White

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Eric Schmidt

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Epictetus

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Epicurus

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Epictetus

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Epictetus

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Epictetus

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Epictetus

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Emily Carr

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers' ...

Emily Bronte

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

Emily Dickinson

Publication - is the auction of the mind...

Emile Durkheim

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Henri Poincare

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Henri Poincare

Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

Henri Poincare

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henrik Ibsen

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Hesiod

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Henry Ford

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Henry Ford

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Helen Oyeyemi

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Hilary Duff

I feel like women's minds never stop.

Henry Winkler

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Henry Fielding

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.