Mind Quotes - Page 9

• The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Sunshine, Remembrance

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.164

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• A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Sweet, Flower, Sacred

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1903). “My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons”

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• My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is.

  Edward Dyer

  Kingdoms

  'In praise of a contented mind' (1588); attributed

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• My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

  Edward Dyer

  Joy, Kingdoms, Bliss

  Sir Edward Dyer, “My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is”

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• That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Looks, Surface

  'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 25

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• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

  William Cowper

  Light, Arrows, Lag

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.114

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  Edmund Burke

  Progress, March, Humans

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.102

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• The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

  Douglas Adams

  Possibility, Arthur Dent, Crossings

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confusion

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 333, 1977.

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• Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wind, Clouds

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Law, Two

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Imagination

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

  Roald Dahl

  Strong, Book, Sea

  "Matilda". Book by Roald Dahl, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 1988.

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

  James Agate

  Bed, Made

  'Ego 6' (1944) 9 June 1943

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• It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Trying, Like You

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• The mind is an enchanting thing.

  Marianne Moore

  Enchanting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin

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• Each mind has its own method.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Method

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Journey, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 20, 2015

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• As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

  Brahmananda Saraswati

  Wall, Heart, Creating

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• A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

  Kathy Bates

  Heart, Experience, Want

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• To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Attitude, Men, Library

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.19, Penguin

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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspirational, Passion

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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