Edmund Burke, on the mind (1775)
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
Edmund Burke, on the mind (1775)
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
James Baldwin, on education
“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
John Milton, on the mind
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
George S. Patton, on mind and body
“An active mind cannot exists in an inactive body.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, on censorship
“If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person’s mind begins to roam irretrievably. One’s fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.”
Plutarch, on education
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Tunis Wortman, on freedom of speech and inquiry (1800)
“To promote the improvement of Society it is essential that Mind should be free. (more…)
Ernest Hemingway, on the life of the mind
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.”