Mind Quotes - Page 597

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.