Mind Quotes - Page 537

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.