Quotes
Quotes about Mind
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. [Lat., Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.]
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gaveâwin or lose.
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitmentâ¦. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
