Sunday, 29 January 2012

The Human Mind


Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Quincy Adams

‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel De Montaigne

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. - Cicero

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. - Edgar F. Roberts

The human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. - Samuel Richardson

One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. - George Bernard Shaw

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore

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