#mind

Power is not alluring to pure minds. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#minds #power #pure

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#certainly #credulity #human #human mind #mind

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#doubtful #easily #ever #get #like

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#beauty #earlier #ever #fade #fresh

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#create #encounter #literature #minds #moments

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ↗

— St. Jerome

#eyes #face #heart #mind #mirror

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. ↗

— John Jewel

#know #mind #ourselves #us #word

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#kind #mind #reading #tact

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#fragment #intention #involves #life #mind

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during