Top 100 Greatest Mind Quotes
#1. All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
Jacques Barzun
#3. Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.
H.E. Fairbanks
#4. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
Napoleon Hill
#5. My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.
Ben Mitchell
#6. Motivation is the greatest gift to stimulate the feable minded.
Osunsakin Adewale
#7. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison
#8. The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#9. The greatest comfort comes from within. Sit down comfortably. As you control your breath, let your mind watch your body. Tell yourself, "It's Ok." At this moment your soul will find peace and your body, too, will follow, finding comfort and new strength.
Ilchi Lee
#10. The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
#11. But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
Vanessa Mae
#12. Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.
George Barna
#13. I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.
Tiger Woods
#14. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
Anonymous
#15. The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. Peter Kropotkin ... was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds ... of the nineteenth century ... The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.
Emma Goldman
#17. Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.
John B. S. Haldane
#18. An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
#19. He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#20. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
#21. The greatest enemy to your mind is the devil,
the greatest friend knowledge.
Many a mind need to be swept,
many a heart need to be cleansed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Swami Sivananda
#23. Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#24. Heartbreak is the most painful kind of torture, and the mind is its greatest ally." -
Ellie Wade
#25. I don't mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.
Joe Frazier
#26. Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
Shunryu Suzuki
#27. I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical,
Herman Melville
#28. The faults were clear enough: the greatest of them was an initial lack of appreciation of the possibilities of the enemy; a certain indiscipline of mind; a tendency towards exaggeration
Rick Atkinson
#29. The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
#30. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Frank Brady
#31. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#32. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve "it", at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.
Mike Michalowicz
#34. I didn't have long to wait before she joined me naked and mind-bendingly sexy as usual; rendering me utterly captive and raging to claim her body with the dominating sex I couldn't seem to control when we were together. My ultimate reward and my greatest fear all rolled into one.
Raine Miller
#35. Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.
Ronald Ross
#36. The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.
Graydon Carter
#37. Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
E.F. Schumacher
#38. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
#40. We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.
Sterling W. Sill
#41. For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.
Alexandra Silber
#42. The Greatest Companionship you have is your Mind ... Your Conscience Mind ... The one which talks to you ! The only thing you need to make sure is that; it's positive !
Alamvusha
#43. A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
Gautama Buddha
#45. Update your truth! There is no soul; there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.
Philip Dodd
#47. The greatest gift for an individual or a nation ... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#48. Is only a novel ... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Victoria Connelly
#49. It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
John McCain
#50. Dieter had a theory that was pure Faust. Thought alone was valueless. You must act for thought to become effective. He used to say that the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between the mind and the body: an order does not exist if it is not obeyed.
John Le Carre
#51. One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
William James
#53. The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.
James Pierpont
#54. Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
#56. For I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool ...
Herman Melville
#57. The greatest weapon a rebellion has is its spiritus. The spirit of change. That little seed that finds a hope in the mind and flourishes and spreads.
Pierce Brown
#58. The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.
Steven Callahan
#59. Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play ... but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well ... and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!
Rafael Nadal
#61. The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds.
Vironika Tugaleva
#62. The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
John Owen
#63. Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Swami Vivekananda
#64. We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.
Paul Levy
#66. Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.
Steve Maraboli
#67. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle.
#68. In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.
Rajneesh
#69. The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac
#70. The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
Thomas Merton
#71. The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas A. Edison
#72. I'm a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I'm not a mind reader, so I need some help.
Cara McKenna
#74. If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
Catherine Ponder
#75. The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Timothy Gallwey
#76. The things ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Baruch Spinoza
#77. The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#78. I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.
Lance Henriksen
#79. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William Jones
#80. To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without.
Anita Moorjani
#82. Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.
Goldie Hawn
#83. The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
#84. Your mind is your greatest power. Use it well.
Aneta Cruz
#85. Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#87. The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!
Plato
#88. Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.
Anthony Douglas
#89. An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#90. But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.
Sheldon Vanauken
#91. Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Samuel Johnson
#92. the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#93. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill Bryson
#95. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.
Pat Williams
#96. The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
Augustus Y. Napier
#97. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
Carl Honore
#98. Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.
Jean Webster
#99. Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.
Norman Mailer
#100. The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
Rupert Spira
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