Mind Quotes
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We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
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Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
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There is infinite darkness in mind, when would you light the lamp within?
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Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.
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Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.
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People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.
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Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.
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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
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In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
