Mind Quotes

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.