Quotes about 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.
— Victor Hugo
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
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
— 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.
— Milan Kundera
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
— Milan Kundera
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.
— Milan Kundera
And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable
— Milan Kundera
And in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable
— Milan Kundera
For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom
— Milan Kundera
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
— Philip James Bailey
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
— Philip Yancey