Mind Quotes - Page 30

• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Self, Deception, Infinite

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• I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

  Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

  Littles, Might, Despise

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• A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Writing, Pieces, Explosions

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.147, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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• I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

  Elsa Barker

  Lazy, Wish, Want

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Infinity, Infinite, Finite

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

  Sophy Burnham

  Writing, Hands, Connections

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.54, Penguin

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• It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

  James Vila Blake

  Poison, Rats, Flattery

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• As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

  James Vila Blake

  Light, Giving, Sublime

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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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• 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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• 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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• The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

  African Spir

  Spring, Law, Identity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.

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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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• 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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• Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Hands, Glue

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Reality, Squares

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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