Quotes
Quotes about Mind
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.
I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me, How blest the hours pass'd away With the girl I left behind me.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.
There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Take a little rum The less you take the better Pour it in the lakes Of Wener or of Wetter. Dip a spoonful out And mind you don't get groggy, Pour it in the lake Of Winnipissiogie. Stir the mixture well Lest it prove inferior, Then put half a drop Into Lake Superior. Every other day Take a drop in water, You'll be better soon Or at least you oughter.
Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]
