Weak Minds Quotes

• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Ignorance, Perspective

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

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• Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Strong, Ideas

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

  Lettie Cowman

  Strong, Mind, Suffering

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• Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Firsts, Weak

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.24

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• The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Education, Odds, Mind

  Song: Get The Picture

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• Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.

  Robin Sharma

  Strong, Live Life, Hard Work

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• Weak minds think alike.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Mind, Weak

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Power, Stupidity, Mind

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• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

  David Hare

  Strong, Adversity, Two

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• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Atheism, Reform

  Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

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• Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Struggle, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Mind, Moral, Habit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271

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• Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Mind, Trying, Weak

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• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Glitter, Laziness

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749

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• Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Virtue, Weak

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 3, sc. 1

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• A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

  Julia Peterkin

  Strength, Time, Long

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Mind, Admiration

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

  Swami Vivekananda

  Astrology, Mind, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

  John Tillotson

  Drinking, Sleep, Night

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.150

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• Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Vocabulary, Mind, Mastery

  Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising"

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• No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Jobs, Men

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