The Mind Quotes

Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

A new world is only a new mind.

A new music is a new mind.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.