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Best Mind Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they…
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being…
- I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was…
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his…
- At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among…
- Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left…
- The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
- A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do;…
- An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical…
- One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
- No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of…
- The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle