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Quotes about Mind


(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. (Macbeth:) Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? (Doctor:) Therein the patient Must minister to himself. (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!

William Shakespeare

Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

Paul Hamilton Hayne

Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.

Bhagavad Gita

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

E. M. Cioran

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Jacques Barzun

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Germaine Ashvaghosha

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

Sylvia Plath

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Christopher Morley

Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.

John Crowne

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".

Matt Anonymous

Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

William Shakespeare

Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

Unattributed Author

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

Francis Bacon

The last infirmity of noble mind.

Jan van olden Barneveldt

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.

Bishop George Berkeley

Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Bishop George Bible

And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

Bishop George Bible

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Bishop George Bible

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse That God or Nature hath assignde Though much I want that most would have Yet still my minde forbids to crave.

William Byrd (Bird)

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