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| Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. | Bill Gothard | |
| I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? | Eileen Aitkins | 1934-, British Stage Screen Actor |
| The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. | Giambattista Vico | 1688-1744, Italian Philosopher, Historian |
| Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. | Haneef Fatmi | |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
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| Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room | Jeremy Collier | 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror |
| Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. | John Locke | 1632-1704, British Philosopher |
| Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. | John Maynard Keynes | 1883-1946, British Economist |
| One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. | Mortimer J. Adler | 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. | Plaut | |
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| The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. | Robert Chambers | 1802-1871, Scottish Publisher, Writer |
| Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. | Sarah Orne Jewett | 1849-1909, American Author |
| A mind enclosed in language is in prison. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. | Sir Edward Appleton | 1892-1965, British Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1947 |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. | Sir Richard Steele | 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor |
| A multitude of books distracts the mind. | Socrates | BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | Source Unknown | |
| An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but contains nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. | Thomas Traherne | 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic |
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| There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. | W. Winwood Reade | 1838-1875, American Writer |
| What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. | Wendell Phillips | 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator |
| It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. | William Murray | 1705-1793, American Judge |
| Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.'' | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| 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. | Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922, British-born American Inventor of Telephone |
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| Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. | Clarissa | |
| The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. | George S. Arundale | |
| Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit. | Henry L. Doherty | 1870-1939, American Utilities Executive/Engineer |
| Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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