The Mind Quotes
and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.