Mind Quotes - Page 258

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.

[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?