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Mind Quotes by William Hazlitt
- To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
- I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We…
- I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea…
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,…
- A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
- There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
- He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
- The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
- To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
- The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.…
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but…
- The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an…
- In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
- Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
- The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,…
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
- To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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- 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