"It would be positively boring if minds were in tune."
Read quote
4 likes
Mind quotes
Mind
16.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mind
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mind — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mind quotes (page 183 of 820)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well."
Read quote
4 likes
"Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason."
Read quote
4 likes
"How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present."
Read quote
4 likes
"Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins."
Read quote
4 likes
"It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing."
Read quote
4 likes
"I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again."
Read quote
4 likes
"whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?"
Read quote
4 likes
""Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!""
Read quote
4 likes
"Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you."
Read quote
4 likes
"His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss."
Read quote
4 likes
"Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves"
Read quote
4 likes
"The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion."
Read quote
4 likes
"If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet."
Read quote
4 likes
"At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand."
Read quote
4 likes
"You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in."
Read quote
4 likes
"To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal."
Read quote
4 likes
"Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies."
Read quote
4 likes