Quotes
Quotes about Mind
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages. A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross; I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.
I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never loseâsomehow we win out
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.
A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
