Quotes
Quotes about Mind
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
