Jean de la Bruyere Mind Quotations

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.