Quotes about Mind

Make thought a whirlwind.

A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, its is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.

And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable

And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable