Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Joanne Froggatt

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Joe Rogan

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Joe Frazier

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Joan Halifax

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Jimi Hendrix

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

Jimi Hendrix

Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Erik Qualman

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

Erik Erikson

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Emma Goldman

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Emma Goldman

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

John McPhee

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

John Jewel

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

John Irving

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

John Irving

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

John Howe

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

John Hurt

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

John Henrik Clarke

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henry Newman

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

John Hart

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

That's always I think in everybody's back of their mind. We obviously want to be in the playoffs. We're not just sitting here saying we don't want to be in the playoffs. We've just got to find a way to use that as positive motivation.

Rick DiPietro

Every time you go to the rink and get ready for the season, it weighs on your mind,

Ayn Rand

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.