“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.” MenMindMeanTwoIdeasDifferentLanguageDifferencesProduceVarietyCharacteristicsInadequateDifferent Minds Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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.” IfsMindHumansProduceParticularFlowerMethodFruitSpotsSoilHuman MindWeed Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.” MindHas BeensSaidBodyRememberHeardValuableLasting Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.” MenMindMayCharacterDesirePassionFoundVirtueGreaterColorAmbitionVicesSuperiorsVirtuousSuperiorityViciousScarceSatiristMoralist Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.” MindBodyEyeTruthSunRadiance Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
