Mind Quotes

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.

Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.

It is true that impatience, the mother of stupidity, praises brevity, as if such persons had not life long enough to serve them to acquire a complete knowledge of one single subject, such as the human body; and then they want to comprehend the mind of God in which the universe is included, weighing it minutely and mincing it into infinite parts, as if they had to dissect it!

The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.