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Plutarch Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Plutarch Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

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Neither blame or praise yourself.
- Plutarch

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu PHOTO

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

 

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci PHOTO

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung


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