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Mind Quotes - Page 182

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Will Durant, John R. Little (2002). “The greatest minds and ideas of all time”, Simon and Schuster

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

Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

Warren W. Wiersbe (2009). “Be Determined: Standing Firm in the Face of Opposition : OT Commentary : Nehemiah”, p.115, David C Cook

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr

Minds differ still more than faces.

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.386

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press