Quotes About Mind

I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind. NERISSA It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.

Invest me in my motley. Give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.

Such stuff as madmen tongue.

I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my means, meed I am sure I have receiv'd none, unless experience be a jewel—that I have purchas'd at an infinite rate, and that hath taught me to say this: "Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues

Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)

In Paris on a chilly evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind--a struggle which had engaged me for several months--might have a fatal outcome.

with their minds turned agonizingly inward, people with depression are usually dangerous only to themselves. The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence.

I was feeling in my mind a sensation close to, but indescribably different from, actual pain.

She had not planned to weep—it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness—but she could not help it.

In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My voice breaks, becomes shrill; I sweat. I get a sloppy half-grin on my face. Worse, my mind wanders and then takes flight while the logic I possess in fair measure under more placid circumstances abandons my brain like an ungrateful urchin.

In all true artistic feeling, the pursuit, not the result, is the reward; for where Art is rightly pursued, it produces a continual satisfaction in the fact that, however slow, there is progress, and that progress is sure; and although the work done may have no mercantile value whatever, it may be regarded as the effort of an immortal mind striving to improve itself, and, therefore, precious.

It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

A stubborn man can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.

Il pensiero di Demelza gli scaldò la mente e lo illuminò come l'arrivo delle candele aveva illuminato la sala.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

He came early, unwisely as, had he come later, there would have been a better audience to watch his arrival; however, to his untutored mind perhaps this was a matter of little importance.

was that the possibility of Singapore having no landward defences no more entered into my mind than that of a battleship being launched without a bottom.

And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.

I feared the wish was father to the thought.