Good Mind Quotes

• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Kingdoms, Lord

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

  Homer

  Song, War, Men

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• It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Good Man, Mind

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• I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

  Mila Kunis

  Dark, Mind, Comedy

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• My religion is kindness.
  A good mind, a good heart,
  warm feelings these are
  the most important things.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Heart, Feelings

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• The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves....Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Honesty, Moving, Eye

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• It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Sarcasm, Mind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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• Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sorry, Mind, Age

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Giving

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• I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

  Lori Greiner

  Successful, Long, People

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• Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Names, Nymphs, Long

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270

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• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Mind, Bores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Action, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.

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• James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a painter; you're going to have to help define the field and keep the tradition going. And he meant walking in his footsteps in a certain way.

  David C. Driskell

  Talking, Mind, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Discovery, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

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• A bad war is fought with a good mind.

  George Washington

  War, Mind

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• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  Augustus

  Mean, Italian, Agriculture

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• A good mind possesses a kingdom.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Mind

  "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

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• I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, Italian, Venice

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• Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

  Barry Lopez

  Mean, Diverse Society, Space

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

  Simon Hobday

  Golf, Two, Water

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