Mind Quotes - Page 40

• Men that hazard all
  Do it in hope of fair advantages:
  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hazards, Golden

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
  And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Degenerates, Heard

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind,
  Leaving free things and happy shows behind;
  But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
  When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Leaving, Suffering

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.419

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• Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Passion, Savages, Civilized

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

  Chief Dan George

  Wall, Heart, Mountain Ranges

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• To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
  Can gold remove the mortal hour?
  In life can love be bought with gold?
  Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
  No--all that's worth a wish--a thought,
  Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
  Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
  Let nobler views engage thy mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Views, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.554

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• It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

  Epictetus

  Events, Viewpoints, Body

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• Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
  [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

  George Herbert

  Poison, Body, Ifs

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• It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

  Scott Berkun

  Passion, Ideas, Worry

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• Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

  Mark Driscoll

  Stress, Body, Causes

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• The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

  David Icke

  Mean, White, Self

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Purpose, Humans, Human Beings

  "Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Purple, Glasses

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

  David Ortiz

  Fighting, Needs, Normal

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• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Tired, Thinking, Trying

  Song: I Don't Want To Be, Album: Chariot, 2003

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• We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, World, Imagine

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

  Ken Robinson

  Athlete, Creative, Thinker

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• If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

  Ken Robinson

  Important, Culture, Elements

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• Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Space, Focus

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• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Thinking, Body, Spirit

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• [...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

  Janet Frame

  Glasses, Flames, Sky

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• Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

  Richard Marx

  People, Trying, Looks

  Song: Don't Mean Nothing

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• The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, History, Age

  Ayn Rand (1971). “The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution”

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• Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Philosophy, Issues, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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