Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Scott Rolen

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

Saul Perlmutter

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

Satyajit Ray

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

Scarlett Thomas

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Lily Tomlin

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Lin Yutang

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

Lin Yutang

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

Lin Yutang

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Liam Neeson

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

Lenny Kravitz

Being free is a state of mind.

Lee Haney

The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.

Lee Iacocca

A good deal is a state of mind.

Terry Tempest Williams

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Terry Tempest Williams

The mind creates those things that exist.

Terry Tempest Williams

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

Leo Burnett

Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind.

Leo Burnett

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

Lady Gaga

Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.

Lewis Carroll

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Lewis Carroll

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Lewis Carroll

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn't know what to deny!

Lewis Carroll

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies...

Joseph Campbell

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

Joseph Campbell

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Joy Page

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Joyce Brothers

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.