Mental Health Quotes · Page 14

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“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— William Blake

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

— Joseph Joubert

“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all”

— Margaret Fuller

“Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions…”

— Laurence Sterne

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.”

— Laurence Sterne

“Faith is the most centered act of the human mind.”

— Paul Tillich

“Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”

— William H. McRaven

“I have sometimes thought that a squire and a vestry were a king and republic in miniature. The vestry is as tyrannic, in its way, as the squire in his.”

— Horace Walpole

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

— David Hume

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“That great disaster is a symbol to us to remember the big things of life and to forget the small things. We have thought too much of the small things.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because we want them to be so and not because we have seen them for what they are.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

— Ben Jonson

“I never thought an angry person valiant: Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

— Ben Jonson

“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Certain details will age, as do the fashions of another time, but the foundation, the method, constitute one of those great aspects of the human mind, the majesty of which is only…”

— Louis Pasteur

“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”

— Louis Pasteur

“A hundred facts testify to how great an extent the East was mingled with Hellenic thought during the second century of our era.”

— Romain Rolland

“The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.”

— Romain Rolland

“Freedom of thought and of expression are not mere rights to be claimed. They have their roots deep in the existence of individuals as developing careers in time. Their denial and…”

— John Dewey

“The French have a saying: "Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored." Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true.”

— Louis Sullivan

“That was something thought impossible until we put money and talent together and aimed it toward a problem.”

— Christopher Reeve

“It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore.”

— Stephen Colbert

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