Quotes
Quotes about Mind
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
The richest minds need not large libraries.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
