My Mind Quotes

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.