Quotes About Mind

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

A man's head is his castle.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.