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Mind Quotes by Plato
- That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It…
- When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which…
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered…
- A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
- In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
- For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire…
- Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well.…
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
- . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is…
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,…
- Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their…
- Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and…
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with…
- When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to…
- What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world…
More Mind Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle