#mind

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that. ↗

— John Howard

#contemplate #did #fact #fair #government

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#greatest #greatest number #history #human #human mind

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#activity #body #comes #enjoyment #ever

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ↗

— Washington Irving

#great minds #minds #others #purposes #wishes

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#change #faces #going #just #men

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#because #bedroom #down #downstairs #go

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american #american public #being #definite #how

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#getting #hate #i #lose #mind