Mind Quotes - Page 18

• Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Weak Man, Laughing

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• Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Giving, Despair, Ease

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• I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Littles, Imitation, Mark

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• Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Sight

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• A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  May, Causes, Resentment

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• The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Knowledge, Men, World

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• Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Mind Free, Sometimes, Illness

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• To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Discovery, Circumstances

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.187

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• To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Conviction, Depravity

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.147

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• The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Passion, Heart, World

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

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• fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Children, Imagination

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

  James Drummond Burns

  Heart, Fairs, Wooing

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• you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.

  Gwen Raverat

  Growing Up, Parent, Trying

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.52, Clear Press Ltd

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• Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

  Dale Spender

  Media, Patterns, Print

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• Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

  Robert Boyle

  Beauty, Age, Female

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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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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• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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

  Gertrude Atherton

  Self, Deception, Infinite

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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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• 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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• 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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