Grin And Beard It Quotes
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in." - Isaac Asimov
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Robertson Davies
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." - George Orwell
"Quiet people have the loudest minds." - Stephen Hawking
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." – Edgar Allan Poe
"When we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune." – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." – Aristotle
"He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it." – Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"Enough about my beauty. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that." – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
"I'm not sure if things were going to be better or worse now that I'd kissed her. I surmised they'd be both: better because now I had the memory; worse because I had no idea if she'd let me do it again. Either way, I had no regrets."
"I’d wanted to know her better, be friendly. And what did she do? Snap at me all day and invade my dreams all night, tell me how she liked bread. Bread. That’s right, she literally gave me nothing but bread crumbs."
"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does." ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ― Aristotle, Metaphysics
"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." ― Aristotle
"It’s very difficult for people who haven’t lived it to understand why others self-injure. It’s easy to assume all attempts at harm are rooted in suicidal thoughts."
"But it doesn’t make it any less humiliating."
"My mind became too loud. I didn’t forget Beau was there, I forgot I was there."
"You and I have discussed deserving at great length. And you agreed you would stop deciding what people deserve."
"I decide what I deserve; they decide what they deserve."
"You’re a world-class artist, I’ve read articles describing you as a genius."
"Let him see these parts of you, give him time to discover how great you are."
"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch
"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those." – Sylvia Plath
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix." – Arthur Conan Doyle
"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful." – Milan Kundera
"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts." – Leo Tolstoy
"The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards."
"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
"I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
"Separation. Your absence has gone through me. Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."