Quotes About Mind

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Within the book and volume of my brain.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

O! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown:The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword.

O polish'd perturbation! golden care!That keep'st the ports of slumber open wideTo many a watchful night!

Memory, the warder of the brain.

He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.

it's always a good time to change your mind when to do so will widen your heart.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs--puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

It's easy to imagine a world in which genes have control over our minds, and for many animals they do. But once we took the evolutionary pathway toward greater intelligence and a lifestyle that relies on learning rather than inborn knowledge, our genes had no choice but to relinquish much of their control.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

the body will always be more sophisticated than the mind

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.