#mind

...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... ↗

— Marmaduke W. Pickthall

#kor-an #koran #qur-an #quran #religion

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#blowing #i #mind #saw #stones

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#like #nine #since #single-minded #ten

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#day #encountered #event #life #mind

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. ↗

— Anatole France

#bores #charm #gives #irritates #me

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ↗

— Anatole France

#afterwards #art #awakening #curiosity #minds

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#finds #kingdom #mind

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#catch #courses #down #eat #feeling

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party