Mentem Quotes

#1. I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn.
[Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

Harper Lee

#3. In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean.

Chang-rae Lee

#4. For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

Ingrid Michaelson

#5. I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

Jacques Lacan

#6. Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

Toffee

#7. If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

Laozi

#8. It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Marcel Proust

#9. Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Tim Ferriss

#10. She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#11. The whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

Sally Mann

#13. Let holy preparation link hands with patient expectation, and we shall have far larger answers to our prayers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Is there super glue on my floor?

Whitney G.

#15. What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

David Eagleman

#16. Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry