Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
-- Alexander Calder -
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
-- Alexander Calder -
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
-- Alexander Calder -
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
-- Alexander Cannon -
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
-- Alexander Fleming -
As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct, or that the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. Even the love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds...would on the contrary deter him from the undertaking, when he foresaw that he must quit the scene before he could accomplish the work . . .
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.
-- Alexander Kotov -
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
-- Alexander McQueen -
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
-- Alexander Pope -
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
-- Alexander Pope -
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
-- Alexander Pope -
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don`t care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed.
-- Alexander Rybak -
I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.
-- Alexander Shulgin
