Quotes
Quotes about Mind
Animis opibusque parati [Prepared in mind and resources]
I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
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.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
