Quotes
Quotes about Mind
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell, Was but moral of this bell, And the captive soul was she, Which they called Eurydice, Rescued by our holy groan, A loud echo to this tone.]
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]
Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should takeâ choose the bolder.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
By words the mind is winged.
The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:-- A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave, Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
