#mind

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. ↗

— Walter Scott

#awake #desire #keeping #mind #success

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#down #gets #great #itself #last

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#ceo #consultants #help #how #managers

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#craft #folly #mind #novel #screen

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio. ↗

— Larry King

#back #delivery #get #home #i

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ↗

— John Lyly

#hope #mind #past #shame #where

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ↗