Quotes About Mind

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.