Quotes
Quotes about Mind
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream,-- All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
