The Mind Quotes

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.