Quotes by Mind One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. Charles Fort enquirymindscience Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Charles Fort datamindscience She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being. Charles Frazier literatureagemind We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. Charles Hard Townes useagemind The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. Charles Horton Cooley obscurityissuesmind The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own. Charles Horton Cooley selfmindideas Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. Charles Horton Cooley mindactionthinking A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. Charles Horton Cooley eyeleadermind The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. Charles Horton Cooley hospitalitycellsmind The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification. Charles Hugh Smith qualityviewsmind Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. Charles James Fox honormindmen The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. Charles James gratitudeattachmentmind I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me. Charles Kettering assistantsmindfacts The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. Charles Kettering new-venturesminddiscovery Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness. Charles Kingsley sicktruthmind We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God. Charles Kingsley faithwisemind He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind. Charles Kingsley minddiscoverywater Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming. Charles Kingsley savagesmindway I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself. Charles Krauthammer lionstestsmind Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637. Charles Krauthammer mindpeopleyears«114115116117118119120121122123124»
