Quotes About Mind

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

A mad man sees what he sees.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.