mindIron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Harvard University (1943-09-06).
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
If my mind can conceive it; and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.
To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world, his crowning achievement, which would place him beside his Creator, make him fulfill his Ultimate Destiny.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul.
The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
I open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in, starting directly from the simple sensuous perception.
Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
