Mind

Babies are always more trouble than you thought -- and more wonderful.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary

Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body