Quotes About Mind

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself…. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.

To think is to act.

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are prisoners of ideas.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES OF MIND AND SPIRIT