His Mind Quotes

692 His Mind quotes by 529 unique authors

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or… — Archibald MacLeish
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. — Leonardo da Vinci
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on… — Khaled Hosseini
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died… — Patricia A. McKillip
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… — C.S. Lewis
Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these… — Douglas Adams
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. — Clive Barker
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. — John Adams
A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do. — Charles Bukowski
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of… — Ayn Rand
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. — C.S. Lewis
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates… — James Allen
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal… — James Allen
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any… — Martin Amis
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. — Ayn Rand
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard

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