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Mind Quotes - Page 267

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Aldous Huxley (1940). “Words and their meanings”

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1312, Jazzybee Verlag

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.205, Univ of California Press