Quotes for: mind

Quotes for: mind

Hide your life and spread your spirit.
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres

It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Gautama Buddha

A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

All things are ready, if our mind be so.
William Shakespeare

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Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.

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The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David Hume - Of the Standard of Taste

One cannot imagine how much wit is necessary in order never to seem ridiculous.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.
Henry David Thoreau

The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

There is something in man that even the spirit of man does not know.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

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It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus