...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
mind
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.
anger mind
Let us keep ever clear before our minds the fact that mere lip-loyalty is no loyalty at all, and that the only homage that counts is the homage of deeds, not of words.
deeds mind
If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.
How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
idleness mind
The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
key mind
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
dreams mind
So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Tho' one did fling the fire; Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire.
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful administration.
legal mind protection
their swaying bodies reflected the agitation of their minds, and they suffered the worst agony of all, ever just within the reach of safety or just on the point of destruction.
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some divine legend and we see ourselves as some sort of god, seeing we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the object; it means holding in our minds, within reach of this thought, but on a lower level and not in contact with it, the diverse knowledge we have acquired which we are forced to make use of.
What unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind but never let them in our minds?
Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
mind plans
Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.
community crime mind
..even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear,the minds ear can be trained only by the other..which comes back to reading poetry aloud..
mind poetry reading
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least.
A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.