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A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, On Fear
If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, advertising slogan
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN ADAMS, attributed, Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected
The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE, "King Solomon and the Bees"
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.
SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind,
- Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
The mind is nothing less than a garden of inestimable value which man should strive to cultivate.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Like the mind, the computer is useful because it produces information. Computers are also functional because they are able to produce a wide variety of responses that mimic human abilities. As the brain has been compared with the computer, the idea that the mind is a mechanical entity has become more plausible. For example, just as the computer operates on electricity, the brain is now described as an object comprised of electronically sensitive cells or neuron networks. Although the nervous system, which is the controlling agent for the body, continues to be shrouded in mystery, many investigators have found it attractive to equate the mind with the brain and to identify both with the computer.
VICENTE BERDAYES, Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations
"I must really improve my Mind," I tell myself, and once more begin to patch and repair that crazy structure. So I toil and toil on at the vain task of edification, though the wind tears off the tiles, the floors give way, the ceilings fall, strange birds build untidy nests in the rafters, and owls hoot and laugh in the tumbling chimneys.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Trivia
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.
The mind delights most in being led through a mystic maze before reaching the open door.
The mind, when compelled, by education or other circumstances, to receive irrational doctrines, has yet a power of keeping them, as it were, on its surface, of excluding them from its depths, of refusing to incorporate them with its own being; and when burdened with a mixed and incongruous system, it often discovers a sagacity which reminds us of the instinct of inferior animals, in selecting the healthful and nutritious portions, and in making them its daily food.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Thoughts
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Some minds are so unclothed that they are indecent.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
The mind of man is a scene of perpetual instability and commotion, ruffled by every breeze of passion and agitated by every impulse of hope; it floats with giddy security on the ebullitions of fancy, and sinks with precipitation in the cavities of despair; it pursues with avidity the emotions of sense, and listens with rapture to the murmurs of restraint; it hears with pious reverence the counsels of reason, and follows with lucid submission the dictates of pleasure: always fickle and undetermined, it looks for quiet, sometimes in remonstrance, sometimes in acquiescence; it often mixes with confusion, that it may establish peace, and often regulates quietude by turbulent uproar.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Empires will fall--dynasties fade away; but the mind of man will survive the destruction of all inanimate matter--its destiny is eternal.
The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, The Gospel of Buddha
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
JOHN ADAMS, letter to John Quincy Adams, Nov. 13, 1816
God didn't give us minds just so we could refuse to use them.
DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder
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