Quotes with mind-bending

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1239.

• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

  Joseph Joubert
  French writer (1754 - 1824)
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• The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

  Adrienne Rich
  American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale
  American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
  
  

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  Olympia Brown
  American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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• The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

  Clark Moustakas
  American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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• The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

  Daniel Webster
  American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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• The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

  Steven Biko
   
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• The narrower the mind, the broader the statement.

  Ted Cook
   
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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  Washington Irving
  American writer (1783 - 1859)
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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

  Maya Angelou
  African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  Original: Le besoin d'avoir raison - marque d'esprit vulgaire.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

  Carson Daly
  American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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• The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.

  Billy Williams
  American baseball player (1938 - )
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• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• self-knowledge
• individual
• tremendous
• autographs
• stretched

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