Quotes
Quotes about Mind
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
All through history mind limps after reality
It is not wantonness I mind but only dullness
The foul wrong then lay beyond a man's own purposing; there was somewhere, outside time's very beginning, an infinite well of putridity from which body and mind alike were driven, by some force unseen and uncontrollable, to drink
There is a whole wing of your mind's mansion unknown to you, where, as it were, work is already proceeding on your notion
The power of the unconscious mind is huge - it can do anything
As for drink - alcohol obfuscates the mind
Britain has usually, with the absent-mindedness that acquired her an empire, blazed the major trails of social change
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, ... it doesn't matter.
APRIL 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.
The superior man is broadminded but not partisan; the inferior man is partisan but not broadminded.
Minds are like parachutes - they function only when open.
He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Minds are like parachutes - they function only when open.
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The Man who never in his Mind and Thoughts travel'd to Heaven is No Artist.
Minds are like parachutes - they function only when open.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
