Special Quotations
Military Quotations
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Such as take lodgings in a head, that's to be let unfurnished.
A faultless body and a blameless mind.
The glory of a firm capacious mind.
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis]
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Gravity is a mystery of the body invented to conceal the defects of the mind. [Fr., La gravite est un mystere du corps invente pour cacher les defauts de l'esprit.]
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
Stern men with empires in their brains.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. [Lat., Cum corpore ut unanCrescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem.]
The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open. [Lat., Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nec immense moles, ceduntque recessus: Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile coelum.]
The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
The mind alone can not be exiled.[Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]
The mind of man is capable of anything.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought. [Lat., Habet cerebrum sensus arcem; hic mentis est regimen.]
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [Lat., Mens mutatione recreabitur; sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus, et pluribus minore fastido alitur.]
My mind's my kingdom.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation. [Lat., Animus quod perdidit optat, Atque in praeterita se totus imagine versat.]
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Whose cockloft is unfurnished.
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
A good mind possesses a kingdom.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
The mind alone can not be exiled.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.
The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.
My mind's my kingdom.
Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and can not keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity.
Mind moves matter.
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered.
You will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.
A man of hope and forward-looking mind.
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Minds that have nothing to confer. Find little to perceive.
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
The last infirmity of noble mind.
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.
The forehead is the gate of the mind.[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
Mind Quotes
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind, To look out through, and his Frailty find.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
Nature's first great title--mind.
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
God is Mind, and God is all; hence all is Mind.
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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Each mind has its own method.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find, That bliss which only centers in the mind.
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
The most perfect mind is a dry light. [Lat., Lumen siccum optima anima.]
Whose little body lodged a mighty mind.