I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
—Plato
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
—Plato
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament.
—Socrates
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
—Socrates
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues
If you want to develop your mind you should think more, not repeat.
—René Descartes
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
—Immanuel Kant
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
—René Descartes
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. It is not good enough to have good talent, the main thing is to apply it well
—René Descartes
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
—René Descartes
Control your body if you want your mind to work properly.
—René Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries
—René Descartes
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
—Immanuel Kant
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
—Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
—Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
—Charlie Chaplin
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.
—George Washington
How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
—Thomas Aquinas
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
—Cicero
If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
—Sun Tzu
Weep with them that weep. If you can do no more, at least mix your tears with theirs; and give them healing words, such as may calm their minds, and mitigate their sorrows.
—John Wesley