Quotes by Mind It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. Benjamin E. Mays goals-dreamsmindlying I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. Benjamin F. Wade bearsmindheart you can do anything you set your mind to Benjamin Franklin perseverancemindinspirational Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! Benjamin Franklin returnhabitmind Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse. Benjamin Franklin pouringcoinsmind To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. Benjamin Franklin enviousblindmind So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. Benjamin Franklin creaturesreasonmind Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate. Benjamin Franklin povertyproducemind Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude. Benjamin Franklin readingmindeducation When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one. Benjamin Franklin presidentialsupportmind There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies. Benjamin Franklin lazybodymind "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition. Benjamin Franklin independenceselfmind It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. Benjamin Franklin temperdelightmind The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. Benjamin Franklin generositymindwant Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions. Benjamin Franklin karmamindmen I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Benjamin Franklin mindweight-lossfunny Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind Benjamin Franklin revelationsinfluencemind The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess. Benjamin Franklin chess-gamegamesmind God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights. Benjamin Harrison rightsmindmen Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. Benjamin Haydon prejudiceseriousmind«6768697071727374757677»
