Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
Isaac NewtonI don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam SandlerNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe way I talk is bizarre.
Karl LagerfeldElectrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
Nikola TeslaThe union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph AddisonWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerSilence is safer than speech.
EpictetusLulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander PopeThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawYou may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.
Henry David ThoreauMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoWhere the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia WoolfIron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da VinciSisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?
Russell M. NelsonAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t digest things with my mind.
Marilyn MonroeSpeech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAll free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘
John F. KennedyBefore I speak, I have something important to say.
Groucho MarxThe poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia WoolfOf all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen KellerOf all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis BaconI can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPersuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
AristotleOur mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann HesseAfter many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Charles SpurgeonIn the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William JamesLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao TzuA masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia WoolfFor me, it’s a purity thing about the joke itself. It’s a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that’s a legitimate item you have there. For me, it’s nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It’s just not what I’m in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.
Jerry SeinfeldI stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson MandelaIn the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert EinsteinThe movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen KellerFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise PascalA feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMeans we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl JungDiscretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis BaconThe law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma GandhiJust as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon HillAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil GibranMan consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody AllenI don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.
Joe BidenWhat the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
Alice WalkerCommon Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da VinciThe human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyShe had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawWhen the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia WoolfBrevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James MadisonCulture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma GandhiDespair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie ChaplinThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon