Mind Quotes - Page 548

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. It starts with the way people are brought up, and what is put into their heads and put into their minds as engaged citizens.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

I don't like to think on obstacles. I guess that if you focus your mind on obstacles, they will grow bigger.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.