Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Samuel Johnson

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

Samuel Johnson

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Samuel Johnson

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

Samuel Johnson

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Samuel Johnson

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Sam Altman

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

Sadie Jones

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

Sachin Tendulkar

Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back.

Sachin Tendulkar

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

Ruth Ozeki

My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Robert Jordan

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

Rodman Philbrick

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Rodman Philbrick

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Robertson Davies

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Robert Southwell

My mind to me an empire is.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Robert Southey

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

Robert Southey

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Robert M. Pirsig

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

Walt Disney

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

Walt Disney

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Vinod Khosla

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

Vinod Khosla

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Walt Whitman

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

Saul Williams

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.