mind Quotes

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether... ...

You won't achieve anything important without courage. It's the best quality of the mind, after honesty.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

All paid jobs can take over and lower the quality of the mind.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is... ...

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate... ...

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.