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
William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.196, Courier Corporation
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
Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr
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
Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.
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