Quotes About Mind

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.