One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
My Mind Sparks; My Soul Sparkles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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