Agate James 1877-1947

Ego 6

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Aldiss Brian

Barefoot in the Head

Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.

Ames Adelbert

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Aretino Pietro 1492-1556

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

Attlee Clement 1883-1967

The voice we heard was that of Mr. Churchill but the mind was that of Lord Beaverbrook.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

The Advancement of Learning

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

Banks Tony
(whilist Minister for Sport)

My mind is very, very open, and so is my mouth.

Beecher John

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Blixen Karen 1885-1962

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

‘Christmas-Eve'

In the natural fog of the good man's mind.

Burke Billie

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Of its own beauty is the mind diseased.

Cajal Santiago Ramon y

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

Notebooks

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

Advice is like snow;the softer it falls,the longer it dwells upon,and the deeper it sinks into,the mind.

Cossman Joseph E.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

Coward Noёl 1899-1973

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Cowley Malcolm 1898-1989

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Davies Robertson 1913-1995

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Doyle Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1930

His Last Bow ‘The Dying Detective

Of all ruins that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Indian Emperor

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Dunne Finley Peter 1867-1936

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Eiseley Loren 1907-1977

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939

The Interpretation of Dreams

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Frye Northrop 1912-1991

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Gorrell Stuart 1902-1963

‘Georgia on my Mind'

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find,
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Do What you Will

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

James Henry 1843-1916

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.
Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Boswell - Life

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.

Juvenal AD c.60-c.130

Satires

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
You should pray to have a sound mind in a sound body.

Kant Immanuel 1724-1804

Critique of Practical Reason

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

Keats John 1795-1821

‘The Human Seasons'

Four seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man.

Keats John 1795-1821

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Not a select party.

Keats John 1795-1821

‘O Solitude! iF I must with thee dwell'

Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thoughts refined,
Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.

Kempis Thomas à 1379-1471

De Imitatione Christi

Today the man is here; tomorrow he is gone.
And when he is ‘out of sight', quickly also is he out of mind.

La Rouchefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680

Maxims

The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.

Landor Walter Savage 1775-1864

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.

Lowell Robert 1917-1977

‘Shunk Hour'

My mind's not right.

MacLeish Archibald 1892-1982

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

Essay ... „Horace Walpole"

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Marston John 1576-1634

The Scourge of Villainy

My mind disdains the dungy muddy scum
Of abject thoughts and Envy's raging hate.

Milton John 1608-1674

Areopagitica

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.
Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Regained

... The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day. Be famous then
By wisdom; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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