Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
It is a mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize that, and you ll find strength.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
The mind of man is capable of anything.
For me music is powerful. It brings peace in people’s hearts & minds as it overcome barriers and form strong bonds.
When mind is absent, the beauty of the body is animalistic.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
The relationships between consciousness and reality are extremely complex.... It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
The mind was not given to us for understanding the inexplicable, but to avoid stumbling upon the trees.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Small things amuse small minds.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Do you know of someone nobler than.. he who nurtures minds and hearts
My homeland is always in my mind, even when I am in paradise.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.