Mind Quotes - Page 493

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.