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Mind Quotes by Victor Hugo
- To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do…
- There shall be no slavery of the mind.
- A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
- A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
- Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;…
- All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,…
- There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
- Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions,…
- Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust…
- Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
- In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
- I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
- What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
- One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is…
- The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will…
- Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure…
- The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,…
- Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the…
- As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
- That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in 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