Quotes About Mind

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."(Christian D. Larson)

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.