Quotes by Mind "Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle mindeuropemen Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought. Arthur Desmond wallmindmen We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington naturefoundmind It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. Arthur Eddington lawmindmay As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned? Arthur F. Burns mindmayschool In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas. Arthur Frommer mindamericalooks The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion. Arthur Fry creativitycreativemind I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain. Arthur Fry patternsmindbrain He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. Arthur Golden singingmindsong I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more. Arthur Golden swallowingmindthinking Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy. Arthur Guiterman mindmotivationalthinking It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one. Arthur Helps strongmindthinking To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction). Arthur Honegger reflectionmindgiving That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind. Arthur Hugh Clough behindssightmind Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it! Arthur Hugh Clough breastscaremind Out of sight is out of mind. Arthur Hugh Clough sightmind Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again. Arthur J. Deikman minddesirememories Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. Arthur Keith tolerancemindcivilization The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi. Arthur Koestler two-sidescreativitymind Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. Arthur Koestler degreesdifferentmind«5253545556575859606162»
