Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Francis Quarles

My mind's my kingdom.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hugh Howey

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

Horace

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Herbert Simon

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

Esther Hicks

Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?

Esther Hicks

Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time

Ernest Hemingway

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Etta James

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Erwin Schrodinger

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

Erwin Schrodinger

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

Erwin Schrodinger

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

Erykah Badu

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

Erykah Badu

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Ernest Holmes

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

Erin O'Connor

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.