The Mind Quotes

He made us realize that if the mind was willing, the body can go.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

You don’t mind when he stares at you.” Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn’t stare,” I said. “He looks.

I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.