Mind Quotes - Page 323

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.