Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Mike Love

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

Marcel Proust

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Joseph Addison

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Joseph Addison

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Kevin Brooks

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

Kelley Armstrong

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Katy B

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Khaled Hosseini

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

Khaled Hosseini

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Khalil Gibran

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Jonathan Swift

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Jonathan Nolan

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

Napoleon Hill

Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Jacob Bronowski

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Jack Welch

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

Harvey Mackay

Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.

Jeremy Hardy

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

James Allen

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

Henry Rollins

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Henry Adams

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.