A fellow o’ th’ strangest mind i’ th’ world. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 3. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, about himself.
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 23. Victor is consumed with grief after the death of Elizabeth at the hands of the monster he created.
The lies may become true in his mind as soon as he utters them, but they are still lies. It’s just another way for him to see what he can get away with, and so far he’s gotten away with everything. – Mary Trump Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
In Heart You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising. – Joseph Campbell
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has. – John Lubbock The Use of Life.
The human mind is one of the most gracious gifts of creation. The human mind is the place where nature gathers at its most intense and at its most intimate. – John O’Donohue Interview with Mary NurrieStearns.
Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Operation: Annihilate’.
In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. – J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 9. Holden is ashamed of and confused by his active sexual desires.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 2. O’Brien to Winston.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 2. O’Brien to Winston, in between sessions of torture of Winston. He wants him to accept the false reality of the Party.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien is saying here that power is manipulation people’s thoughts and minds.
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston. The party is all powerful because it controls people’s mind and their reality.
In Heart Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. – The Bible Jesus Christ, Mark 12:30
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. – Harry S Truman
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry David Thoreau
I’m a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next. – Hugh Grant
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. – Henri Poincare
You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other’s opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow. – Howard Jacobson
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. – Henry James
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don’t really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice. – Gillian Welch
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don’t know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I’m not one to make excuses, so I’ll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats. – Herschel Walker
Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field. – Harbhajan Singh
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction. – Hans Bender
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only. – Henry Miller
You can’t ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion. – Henepola Gunaratana
When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril. – Harry S Truman
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. – John Milton Paradise Lost, Book I, spoken by Satan.
