Top 100 Quotes About Wise Mind
#1. The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.
Pearl S. Buck
#2. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
Barbara Smoker
#3. A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.
George Harrison
#4. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#7. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
#10. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
#12. A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.
John Litwinovich
#13. A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
Immanuel Kant
#15. Another of Shantideva's wise sentences rang in Chongan's mind: "May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers." Chongan imagined that the remains of Shantideva's holy ribs could transform Satan rather than vice versa.
Katerina Sestakova Novotna
#16. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#17. But in Marriage do thou be wise; prefer the Person before Money; Vertue before Beauty, the Mind before the Body: Then thou hast a Wife, a Friend, a Companion, a Second Self; one that bears an equal Share with thee in all thy Toyls and Troubles.
Various
#18. You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold
the mind and the power to enjoy it.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#22. Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
Thubten Yeshe
#23. No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates the stains of his mind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#25. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.
Nikki Rowe
#26. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#28. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#30. The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
Malcolm X
#34. No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#35. Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
Marcus Aurelius
#36. It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
Sydney Smith
#37. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus
Gareth F. Baines
#38. A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
Friedrich Schiller
#40. Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.
DuBose Heyward
#41. If the body dies, life ends! If the body is disturbed, life is disturbed. If the mind is not sound, everything least sound well to the mind! Mind your body; mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#42. This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same
Adrian Sandvaer
#43. Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#44. Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
Roger McDonald
#47. Is this blasphemy, my lord?"
"I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.
Tom Robbins
#48. Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.
Albert Pike
#49. I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.
Og Mandino
#50. The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
John Godfrey Saxe
#51. The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.
Samuel Johnson
#54. This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
#55. Mastering my mind one thought at a time.
Nikki Rowe
#56. We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.
Charles Kingsley
#58. Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness
William Wordsworth
#59. Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.
Donna Goddard
#60. A wise traveler reaches his goal and rests," he continues. "The wanderer never reaches it, but with great lethargy of mind forever directs his hungry eyes before him.
Rod Dreher
#61. Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.
Mary Stewart
#62. True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
#63. Full mind is the mind of stupid man; empty mind is the mind of wise man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.
David Starr Jordan
#65. Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams
#66. Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.
Abhijit Naskar
#67. You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
Ellen Langer
#69. It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Euripides
#70. Know your own mind and you will be as wise as the sages.
Napoleon Hill
#72. Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
Walter Savage Landor
#75. Frank Herbert said that Fear is the mind-killer. He was a wise man.
Kevin Hearne
#76. Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself ... My ideas are my harlots.
Denis Diderot
#78. Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.
Eric Kandel
#79. Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
Robert Grudin
#80. Times change, and people change with the times - the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
Ayn Rand
#81. The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
#82. This author has nothing but imagination ... there are people who claim that imagination has clearer and keener eyes than a wise, old mind.
Translated from: Und Friede auf Erden, (1904) (And Peace on Earth)
Karl May
#84. The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca The Younger
#85. It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
#86. The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
Tim Fargo
#87. It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham
#88. The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.
Epictetus
#89. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
#90. She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
Homer
#95. Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.
Russell Lynes
#96. The wise can coach and explain but only you can unshackle your mind.
Philip Arnold
#97. Probably in your mind your shit is wise, but so far what I hear for me doesn't sound as a wise.
Deyth Banger
#98. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#99. If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind
Lailah Gifty Akita
