Quotes
Quotes about Mind
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
The face the index of a feeling mind.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind With your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
