Quotes about Mind, page 12

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about mind

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about mind

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about mind

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Quote by Rebecca West about mind

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Quote by Vincent van Gogh about mind

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Quote by Washington Irving about mind

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold,...

Quote by Miles Franklin about mind

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about mind

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Quote by Edward Morgan Forster about mind

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Quote by Benedetto Croce about mind

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Quote by William Ellery Channing about mind

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Quote by Johannes Brahms about mind

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Quote by Irwin Allen Ginsberg about mind

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about mind

Prayer is on my mind today because I have a favorite uncle who is gravely ill. So I wrote two quotations on prayer today. I think of prayer as something spiritual not necessarily religious. To me prayer is not a request it is a search for hope in...

Quote by Mark Amend about mind

Released from the prison of mind words are looking words their own destiny.

Quote by Marius Torok about mind

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about mind

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Quote by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald about mind

I come to the theater with an hour and a half before going on stage, because you need time to go all the way from person to character... It is necessary to clear the mind, cast away of yours thoughts and to be available for the character.

Quote by Mircea Albulescu about mind

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Quote by Marc Levy about mind