Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1624.

• The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

  ― Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

  ― John Fischer
   
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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  ― Henri-Louis Bergson
  French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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• The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

  ― Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  ― Robertson Davies
  Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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• The fairest garden in her looks,
  And in her mind the wisest books.

  Source: The Garden, i; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  ― Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

  ― Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  ― Margaret Oliphant
  British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  ― Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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• The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''

  ― Edith Hamilton
  American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  ― Nadine Gordimer
  South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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• The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

  ― Bill Walton
  American basketball player (1952 - )
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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

  ― Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
  German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

  ― Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)

  ― Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

  ― Thornton T. Munger
  American scientist and environmentalist
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• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  ― Jacob Bronowski
  British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• indiscretions
• consciousness
• fundamental
• indifferent
• fascination

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