Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahalia Jackson

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Mahatma Gandhi

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Gene Wolfe

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

Gene Wolfe

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gay Talese

Listen, then make up your own mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

John Dryden

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

John Maynard Keynes

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

John Lubbock

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

John Lubbock

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

John Lydon

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

John Lydon

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

John Locke

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Lancaster Spalding

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

John Lancaster Spalding

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

John Lancaster Spalding

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

John Lancaster Spalding

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

John Barrowman

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

Jimmy Buffett

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Joanna Baillie

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Jim Rohn

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

Jim Rohn

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

Jim Rohn

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

Jim Rohn

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

George MacDonald

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

George MacDonald

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.