Alexander Graham Bell Quote

When you tackle a great work of literature, you make some amazing discoveries.

Akira Kurosawa

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

• Thinking

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

• Mind
• Learning

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

• Mind
• Soul

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

William Butler Yeats

• Mind
• Health

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

• Suffering

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Morgan Freeman

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

• Mind
• Hope

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

• Mind
• Spirit
• Artist

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

• Mind

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

D. H. Lawrence

• Religion
• Belief

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

Shia LaBeouf

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Minoru Yamasaki

• Belief

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Quentin Tarantino

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Andrea Bocelli

• Destiny

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Bertolt Brecht

• Self-discovery

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau