Mind Quotes - Page 470

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.

The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

The thing about cats, as you may find, Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

You control the doorway to your mind.

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

Garden work clears the mind.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.