Quotes About Mind

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning.