T Quotes
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“The mind of a man possess is state of being.”
“The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that are connected with these thoughts. That is, he does not struggle against a woman, or against one who has insulted him, and not against the images of them, but against the passions that are aroused by these images.”
“The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.”
“The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.”
“The mind of a resourceful woman always thinks of improving lives.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“The mind of a soul is beyond another’s’ imagination.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The mind of a teacher of Latin and a reader of Greek is a queer thing. No sooner had Magnus in his justifiable indignation at her teasing ways imagined himself ravishing Curly by force in her own maiden bed, than such a blind passion of pure love for her swept over him that the blood rushed to his head and he squeezed his bony hands together.”
Source: Weymouth Sands
“The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.”
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
“The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“The mind of an adult begins in the imagination of a child.”
“The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.”
“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”
“The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.”
“The mind of God begins exactly where our reasoning ends.”
“The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.”
“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”
Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life
“The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.”
Source: Moonlight on the Nantahala
“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”
“The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?”
Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases
“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
Source: The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet the truth with his own true stuff-with his own inborn strength.”
Source: Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
“The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
Source: Heart of Darkness Thrift Study Edition
“The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.”
Source: The Science of Mind Collection
“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.”
“The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.”
“The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation.”
Source: Orlando
“the Mind of Man--
My haunt, and the main region of my song.”
“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.”
“The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.”
Source: A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks
“The mind of resourceful woman always thinks of improving lives.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“The mind of someone listening to a philosopher, if the things said are useful, helpful and furnish remedies for faults and errors, has no leisure and time for profuse and extravagant praise. ... Great applause and admiration are not unrelated, but the greatest admiration yields silence rather than words.”
Source: Lectures and Fragments
“The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.”
“The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.”
“The mind of the demented was a dangerous place to place to play and the psychologist never wanted to stay too long for fear of not finding her way back.”
Source: Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel
“The mind of the demented was a dangerous place to play and the psychologist never wanted to stay too long for fear of not finding her way back.”
Source: Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel
“The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.”
Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects
“The mind of the many is not the mind of God.”
Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more
“The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.”
“The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.”
“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.”
“The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.”
Source: Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life
“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”
“The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.”
Source: An Autobiography and Other Writings