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Mind Quotes by Plutarch
- For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to…
- Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
- For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
- Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that…
- If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends,…
- Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
- I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
- Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart…
More Mind Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- 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
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle