Mind - Quotes
I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
This world is so devoid of courtesy, I never mind receiving a little, even if it`s misplaced.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is drowned in ignorance.
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says "Everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved in the writing of this book."?