Quotes
Quotes about Mind
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
