Quotes
Quotes about Mind
Aggressive Fancy working spells
Upon a mind o'erwrought.
Though it lash the shallows that line the beach,
Afar from the great sea-deeps,
There is never a storm whose might can reach
Where the vast leviathan sleeps.
Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind
In the clear cold depths he swims;
Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind
With a dash o'er the surface skims.
? John Bartlett, compThe Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
The work of the world must still be done,
And minds are many though truth be one.
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Take care and say this with presence of mind.
As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms.... Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, --a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt."
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
