#mind

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#evidence #exaggerate #human #human mind #impossible

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ↗

— Aristotle

#essence #life #mind

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. ↗

— Aristotle

#equal #equals #inferiors #may #mind

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. ↗

— Mary Astell

#half #minds #much #own #reflection

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#institution #mind #opening #reform #society

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. ↗

— Mary Astell

#any #convincing #ever #hearts #mind

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #america #any #beside #comfort

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#consultants #many #mind #respond #too

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find