Quotes About Mind

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

Hay siempre en el pensamiento cierta cantidad de rebelión interior, y le irritaba sentirla dentro de sí.

One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.

We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which play the same trick on us, rolling into a buried corner of our minds; and there it is, they've gone forever, we can't put our finger on them.

It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.

He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them.

Make thought a whirlwind.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to the shore.

When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time.

He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion;

I buoni pensieri hanno i loro abissi al pari dei cattivi.

A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But

Dac? nu s-ar aprinde nimic înd?r?tul pleoapei, înseamn? c? nici un gând nu încolÈ›eÈ™te în minte, înseamn? c? nici un sentiment de dragoste nu clocoteÈ™te în inim?. Acela care iubeÈ™te, acela are È™i voin??, iar voinÈ›a înfl?c?reaz? privirea omului. Hot?rârea toarn? foc în privire; foc minunat, iscat de arderea gândurilor timide.

Assim como só nas entranhas da Terra se acham os diamantes, assim somente nas entranhas do pensamento se encontram as verdades.

When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind.

One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, its is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.

Quando molte sensazioni hanno agitato la giornata, quando qualcosa preoccupa la mente, ci si addormenta, sì, ma non ci si riaddormenta. Il sonno può venire, ma difficilmente può ritornare.

our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.