MIND

Related Subjects: Body, Genius, Head, Heart, Intelligence, Senses, Soul, Spirit

1. The world must have great minds, even as great spheres
   Or suns, to govern lesser restless minds.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

2. The dark side of a man's mind seems to be a sort of antenna tuned to catch gloomy thoughts from all directions.—ADMIRAL BYRD, Alone
   

3. Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

4. One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
   One need not be a house;
   The brain has corridors surpassing
   Material place.—EMILY DICKINSON, Time and Eternity
   

5. My mind to me a kingdom is;
   Such present joys therein I find,
   That it excels all other bliss
   That earth affords or grows by kind:
   Though much I want which most would have,
   Yet still my mind forbids to crave.—EDWARD DYER
   

6. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.—EMERSON, Spiritual Laws
   

7. A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Tour to the Hebrides
   

8. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.—LOWELL, Abraham Lincoln
   

9. A well-ordered mind is early trained.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

10. A mind not to be chang'd by place or time,
    The mind is its own place, and in itself
    Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.—MILTON, Paradise Lost

11. Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.—POPE, The Iliad of Homer
    

12. Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured.—Proverb
    

13. As sight in the eye, so is the mind in the soul.—Proverb
    

14. A good mind possesses a kingdom.—SENECA, Thyestes
    

15. O! what a noble mind is here o'er-thrown;
    The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

16. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;
    And I myself see not the bottom of it.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

17. Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

18. Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul.—SPINOZA
    

19. It is difficult to think of a germ-cell, of a higher animal at least, as being without its psychical aspect. Unless we think of "the mind" as en­tering in at a later stage in development, the germ-cell must have a dim primordium of the subjective, the promise and potency of mentality.—SIR ARTHUR THOMPSON
    

20. Companion none is like Unto the mind alone;
    For many have been harmed by speech,
    Through thinking, few or none.—SIR THOMAS VAUX, Of a Contented Mind
    

21. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.—DANIEL WEBSTER
    

22. Minds that have nothing to confer
    Find little to perceive.—WORDSWORTH, Yes, Thou Art Fair
    

23. Strongest minds
    Are often those of whom the noisy world
    Hears least.—WORDSWORTH, The Excursion