Mind Quotes - Page 20

• The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Opposites, May

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• I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

  Nina Berberova

  Thinking, Men, Waiting

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• No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, May, Rewards

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Infinity, Infinite, Finite

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• These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

  Willa Gibbs

  Oysters, Spoil, Ifs

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• Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.

  Frances Osborne

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

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• happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

  Flora Thompson

  Happiness, Events, Body

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.52, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.

  Elsa Barker

  Mysterious Things, Mysterious

  Elsa Barker (1928). “The Cobra Candlestick”

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• It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Fall, Snow, Dew

  Jeremiah Seed (1757). “Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London”, p.351

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• Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

  George Colman the Elder

  Men, Should, Lottery

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• The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

  Bill Porter

  World

  Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.192, Counterpoint Press

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• Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

  Lydia M. Child

  Ignorant, Prejudice, Kind

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• Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

  Yves Behar

  Stay Calm, Different, Sometimes

  "It’s Yves Behar’s World. We Just Live (Better) in It". Interview with Lauren Murrow, www.modernluxury.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

  Michael Rost

  Listening, Speakers

  Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.3, Routledge

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• In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.

  Paul Ludwig Landsberg

  Real, Love Is, Desire

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• There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies.

  Filipp Golikov

  Lying, Believe, Mean

  "Behind the Iron Curtain". Book by George Moorad, 1946.

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• Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Dream, Eye, Heart

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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• Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

  Masiela Lusha

  Kissing, Lyrical, Subconscious

  ""Masiela's Musings" by Gina LaGuardia". College Bound Teen, October 2004.

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• a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

  Lydia M. Child

  Littles, Little Things, Great Things

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• Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Sex, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Inchbald (1808). “The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry”

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• The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Heart, Errors, Dangerous

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.61

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• Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  House, Doe, Body

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• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

  Mick Jagger

  Mean, Worry, Criticism

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