Quotes
Quotes about Mind
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. â¢John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. â¢William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. â¢Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. â¢S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. â¢Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! â¢Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. â¢Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. â¢Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. â¢Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!
And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied, And therein do account myself well paid; My mind was never yet more mercenary.
Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
