Mind Quotes - Page 637

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

I usually have a title in mind before I start.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.

I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I literally take mind altering substances, or do things in which I am able to forgo reality. I have the potential to be an enormously repressed individual in the guise of a freewheeling spirit.

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.