Mind Quotes - Page 284
How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.226, Univ of Wisconsin Press
Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.
John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86
1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.
"Essays in Biography" by John Maynard Keynes (Ch. 39), 1933.
John Locke, Francis Bacon (1825). “The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political”, p.128
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
"Aesthetics and religion in nineteenth-century Britain".
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.429
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.20, Courier Corporation
"Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, Oxford University Press
John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.62, Hachette UK
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
1940 Memory Hold-the-Door, ch.2.