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Power Of The Mind Quotes

Swami Vivekananda quote: "The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they..."
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. Swami Vivekananda
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ralph Cudworth
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost... Stephen Fry
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man. Alexis de Tocqueville
Ben Jonson quote: "Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate..."
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. Ben Jonson
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. William Wordsworth
Marcel Proust quote: "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that..."
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit....Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot... R. A. Salvatore
The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem sufficiently demolished. ... The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. Thomas Jefferson
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Paul Brunton
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real... John Locke
Benjamin Banneker quote: "The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of..."
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. Benjamin Banneker

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