Quotes about Mind

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

The mind stands upright when it is humbly submitted to God. For each thing exists to a higher and more noble state to the extent it stands firm in what perfects it more.

For there are some who have such a presumptuous opinion of their own ability that they deem themselves able to measure the nature of everything; I mean to say that, in their estimation, everything is true that seems to them so, and everything is false that does not. So that the human mind, therefore, might be freed from this presumption and come to a humble inquiry after truth, it was necessary that some things should be proposed to man by God that would completely surpass his intellect.

Belief requires assent not only of the mind but also of the will.