Mind Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies

— Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

— Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non…

— Charles Caleb Colton

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter…

— Charles Caleb Colton