Mind Quotes - Page 368

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole.

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

I'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have returned to the churches. I went to a Russian Orthodox and a Catholic church - both of the queues, enormous!

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.