mind Quotes

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The mind's energy is what makes life meaningful.

You should never think without an image.