Quotes About Mind

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost.

His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour[...]

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.

These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This

what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Non c'è niente di più doloroso per la mente umana di un improvviso, assoluto cambiamento.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death—a state which I feared yet did not understand.

nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This

Nada más penoso para la mente humana que la calma absoluta de la inactividad y la certidumbre que se siguen tras una rápida serie de sucesos que han excitado los sentimientos, y despojan el alma de esperanzas y de temores a un mismo tiempo.

A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The

nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This

El ser humano perfecto debe conservar siempre la calma y la paz de espíritu y no permitir jamas que la pasión o el deseo fugaz turben su tranquilidad. No creo que perseguir el conocimiento sea una excepción. Si el estudio al que te consagras tiende a debilitar tu afecto y a destruir esos placeres sencillos en los cuales no debe intervenir aleación alguna, entonces, ese estudio es inevitablemente negativo, es decir, impropio de la mente humana.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death- a state I feared yet did not understand.

Si el estudio al que nos dedicamos tiende a debilitar nuestros afectos y a destruir nuestro gusto por los placeres sencillos en los que no puede haber mezcla ninguna, entonces ese estudio es indefectiblemente malo y en modo alguno conveniente para la mente humana.

pues no hay nada mejor para tranquilizar la mente que un propósito constante, un punto donde el alma pueda fijar la mirada de su intelecto.

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

porque nada contribuye tanto a tranquilizar la mente como un firme propósito, un punto en que el alma pueda fijar su mira intelectual