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Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Longinus of the Sublime (sect. 9)
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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Atheism
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The last infirmity of noble mind.
Author: Jan van olden Barneveldt
Source: The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barneveldt
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have
not any subsistence without a mind.
Author: Bishop George Berkeley
Source: Principles of Human Knowledge
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Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that
ye should inherit a blessing.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. III, v. 8-9)
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And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the
devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his
right mind: and they were afraid.
Author: Bible
Source: Mark (ch. V, v. 15)
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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XIV, v. 5)
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Paracelsus (II)
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The march of the human mind is slow.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 161)
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My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all earthly blisse
That God or Nature hath assignde
Though much I want that most would have
Yet still my minde forbids to crave.
Author: William Byrd (Bird)
Source: his rendering of Dyer's verse when he set it to music
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I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
Author: John Byrom
Source: Careless Content
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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 60)
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Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 647)
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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 19)
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The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus (XI)
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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 3)
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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 4)
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Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Retirement (l. 623)
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His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Truth (l. 405)
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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.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
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Nature's first great title--mind.
Author: George Croly
Source: Pericles and Aspasia
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As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out through, and his Frailty find.
Author: Samuel Daniel
Source: History of the Civil War (bk. IV, st. 84)
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Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of
the human mind in ruins.
Author: Scrope Davies
Source: Letter to Thomas Raikes
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Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. •George Orwell The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. •Henri L. Bergson Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. •Eleanor H. Porter The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. •Henry Courtney A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. •Leonardo Da Vinci A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. •Carolyn Wells Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. •S. Dubay A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. •Winston Churchill The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. •Sigmund Freud A feeble body weakens the mind. •Jean Jacques Rousseau Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. •Buckminster Fuller A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. •Anthony Trollope We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. •Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. •Jean de LaBruyere Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. •Napoleon Hill A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. •Martin Luther King, Jr. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. •Nicholas Hilliard A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. •Eugene Ionesco Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. •Maxwell Maltz Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. •Source Unknown The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. •Michel de Montaigne If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. •Lyall Watson Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. •Elbert Hubbard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. •Colin Wilson Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Author: George Orwell
Source: None
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Nothing comes to mind without thinking!
Author: Samantha R. Hayden
Source: None
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Author: Albert Jay Nock
Source: None
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Source: None
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We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.
Author: Ayn Rand
Source: None
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
Author: Everett M. Dirksen
Source: None
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Thinking men cannot be ruled.
Author: Ayn Rand
Source: None
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Philosopy is the most important thing in life. Everything else is born from there.
Sean Baltz.
Author: Sean Baltz
Source: None
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: None
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