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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
Cicero.
We may doubt the existence of matter, if we please, and like Berkeley deny it, without subjecting ourselves to the shame of a very conclusive confutation. But there is this remarkable difference between matter and mind, that he that doubts the existence of mind, by doubting proves it.
Colton.
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of him who made it.
Burke.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
Rousseau.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Buffoon.
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Sir J.Reynolds.
As the fire fly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind when at rest, it darkness.
L.E.Landon.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined, as the richest jewels are soonest found to wear their settings.
Goldsmith.
A perfectly just and sound mind is a rare and invaluable gift. But it is still more unusual to see such a mind unbiased in all its acting. God has given this soundness of mind but to few; and a very small number of these few escape the bias of some predilection perhaps habitually operating; and none are at all times perfectly free. An exquisite watch went irregularly, though no defect could be discovered in it. At last it was found that the balance wheel had been near a magnet; and here was all the mischief. If the soundest mind be magnetized by any predilection, it must act irregularly.
Cecil.
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards.
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Pope.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to land, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the mind. Each has its proper culture; and as the land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, and thorns, which have neither use for nor beauty, so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a great number of prejudices and absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions, and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise.
Berkeley.
Knowledge, wisdom, erudition, arts, and elegance, what are they, but the mere trappings of the mind, if they do not serve to increase the happiness of the possessor? A mind rightly instituted in the school of philosophy, acquires at once the stability of the oak, and the flexibility of the osier.
Goldsmith.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Chesterfield.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Novalis.
Prepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.
Chesterfield.
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle.
Cicero.
We may doubt the existence of matter, if we please, and like Berkeley deny it, without subjecting ourselves to the shame of a very conclusive confutation. But there is this remarkable difference between matter and mind, that he that doubts the existence of mind, by doubting proves it.
Colton.
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of him who made it.
Burke.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
Rousseau.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Buffoon.
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Sir J.Reynolds.
As the fire fly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind when at rest, it darkness.
L.E.Landon.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined, as the richest jewels are soonest found to wear their settings.
Goldsmith.
A perfectly just and sound mind is a rare and invaluable gift. But it is still more unusual to see such a mind unbiased in all its acting. God has given this soundness of mind but to few; and a very small number of these few escape the bias of some predilection perhaps habitually operating; and none are at all times perfectly free. An exquisite watch went irregularly, though no defect could be discovered in it. At last it was found that the balance wheel had been near a magnet; and here was all the mischief. If the soundest mind be magnetized by any predilection, it must act irregularly.
Cecil.
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards.
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Pope.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to land, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the mind. Each has its proper culture; and as the land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, and thorns, which have neither use for nor beauty, so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a great number of prejudices and absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions, and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise.
Berkeley.
Knowledge, wisdom, erudition, arts, and elegance, what are they, but the mere trappings of the mind, if they do not serve to increase the happiness of the possessor? A mind rightly instituted in the school of philosophy, acquires at once the stability of the oak, and the flexibility of the osier.
Goldsmith.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Chesterfield.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Novalis.
Prepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.
Chesterfield.
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle.
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