Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1624.

• The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

  ― Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  ― Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

  ― E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  ― Bodhidharma
  semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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• The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

  Source: Stone Junction (2004) 348

  ― Jim Dodge
  American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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• The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

  ― Rene Magritte
   
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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

  ― Earl Nightingale
  American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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• The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

  ― Mack R. Douglas
  American author
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• The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

  ― Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

  Source: Phaedrus

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-informed
• achievement
• bric-à-brac
• everything
• constantly
• thoroughly

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