Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Charles Polanyi

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Lisa Kleypas

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

Livy

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Lynda Barry

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

Louise Rennison

I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.

Louise Rennison

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

Louis D. Brandeis

If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.

Lori Greiner

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

Lord Byron

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Lord Byron

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Loren Eiseley

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

Lord Chesterfield

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Lord Chesterfield

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Malcolm Gladwell

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Malcolm Gladwell

Change your mind about something significant every day.

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.

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.

Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Joseph Murray

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Joseph Murphy

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

Joseph Murphy

A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life.

Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Joseph Pilates

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.