#mind

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#books #lifeless #lumps #minds #paper

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews. ↗

— Damon Hill

#after #anxiety #celebration #each #exorcism

The mind can also be an erogenous zone. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#mind #zone

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#indefatigable #mind #optimism

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

#distinction #great #great mind #mind #never

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#cultivation #existence #human #human existence #mind

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#conscience #evil #mind #nothing #save

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#concrete #large #limited #need #often

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#identity #keep #mind #off #out