Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. M. Coetzee

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).

J. K. Rowling

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

J. K. Rowling

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

J. K. Rowling

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...

J. K. Rowling

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

H. L. Mencken

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H. L. Mencken

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

Greg MacGillivray

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Grace Paley

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

J. Reuben Clark

But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Grant Bowler

Mind your own business.

George Herbert

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

Georg Cantor

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Jerry Bridges

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

Jerry Bridges

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Jennifer Aniston

I will always speak my mind.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

Jeanne Moreau

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

Gertrude Stein

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Ellen DeGeneres

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.