Minds are like parachutes--
they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
"Doublethink" means the power of holding
two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
?George Orwell
The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend.
?Henri L. Bergson
Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can
dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what
is in their minds and in their hearts.
?Eleanor H. Porter
The bigger a man's head gets,
the easier it is to fill his shoes.
?Henry Courtney
A chief event of life is the day in which we
have encountered a mind that startled us.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses
its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen;
even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
?Leonardo Da Vinci
A cynic is a man who looks at the world
with a monocle in his mind's eye.
?Carolyn Wells
Craftiness is a quality in the mind
and a vice in the character.
?S. Dubay
A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject.
?Winston Churchill
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with
one-seventh of its bulk above water.
?Sigmund Freud
A feeble body weakens the mind.
?Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ninety-nine percent of who you
are is invisible and untouchable.
?Buckminster Fuller
A man's mind will very gradually refuse
to make itself up until it is
driven and compelled by emergency.
?Anthony Trollope
We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely;
a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
?Jean de LaBruyere
Just as our eyes need light in order to see,
our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
?Napoleon Hill
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men
purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
?Martin Luther King, Jr.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted
mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and
take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
?Nicholas Hilliard
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
?Eugene Ionesco
Within you right now is the power to do things you
never dreamed possible. This power becomes available
to you just as you can change your beliefs.
?Maxwell Maltz
Some minds are like concrete,
all mixed up and permanently set.
?Source Unknown
The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to
the possessor, if he knows
not discreetly how to use it.
?Michel de Montaigne
If the brain were so simple we could understand
it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
?Lyall Watson
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary;
great minds in the commonplace.
?Elbert Hubbard
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
?Colin Wilson
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
?Christian Nestell Bovee
