Mind Quotes

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

~ E. O. Wilson

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

~ William Jennings Bryan

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

~ James Mark Baldwin

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

~ James Madison

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

~ Tony Blair

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

~ Marie Curie

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

~ Marla Gibbs

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

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

~ Dorothea Dix

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

~ Brock Osweiler

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

~ John Henrik Clarke

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

~ Quintilian

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

~ Tim Gunn

I was the one that was always dancing and got along with everybody, but I also spoke my mind. If I didn't agree with something the teacher would say, I'd tell her, so I would get in trouble for things like that. I've always been a good/bad boy.

~ Shameik Moore

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

~ Win Butler

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

~ Hank Azaria

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

~ Dalai Lama

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

~ Laurence Sterne

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

~ Benjamin Banneker

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

~ Pat Riley

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

~ Wladimir Klitschko

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

~ Blaise Pascal

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

~ Wayne Dyer

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

~ William E. Gladstone

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

~ John Bacon

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

~ Michel De Montaigne

There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.

~ David Petraeus

I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

~ Michelle Yeoh

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

~ Ramana Maharshi

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

~ Anthony Hopkins

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

~ Harriet Tubman

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

~ Marcus Aurelius

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

~ Tom Araya

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

~ Lobsang Tenzin

I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

~ Kiesza