mind Quotes

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.