6,568 Quotes About Mind

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

In my mind, this is a special opportunity that we have to do something great. But, like any year, a lot of things will have to go your way.

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and mine is shot.

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.