The study of nature is interwoven with the highest mind. You should never trifle with nature.

-Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)
Attributed.

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

-Agate,James
  Journal entry, 9  Jun. Collected in Ego 6 (1944).

  Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

-Aldiss, BrianWilson
  Barefoot in the Head,'Charteris'.

In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.

-Anonymous
c.1500  'To a Boy'. Translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan ('Frank O'Connor').

Boston is a state of mind.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Attributed. This quotation has also been attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain.

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

-Asquith, Margot
Quoted in The Wit of the Asquiths (published1974).

Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

-Austen,Jane
  Of Mrs Bennet. Pride and Prejudice, ch.1.

[Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting theshows ofthingstothedesires ofthemind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.4, section 2.

The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind? Bacon

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  De Dignitiate et  Augmentis Scientiarum,  Antitheta no.9 (translated by Gilbert  Watts,1640).

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.9,'Of  Atheism'.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. See Berkeley 79:7. 48

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.9 'Of  Atheism'.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

-Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis
  Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke,1928).

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

-Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert
  First Four Minutes.

The test and use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of the mind.

-Barzun,Jacques
  'Science and the Humanities', in the Saturday EveningPost, 3 May.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

-Barzun,Jacques
Quoted in Michael Novak The Joy of Sport (1976), pt1.

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

-Bastard,Thomas
  Chrestoleros, bk.7, epigram 9. English  novelist,  playwright  and  short-story  writer.  His  most popular  publications  include  Fair  Stood  the Wind  for  France (1944), TheJacaranda Tree  (1949)  and The Darling Buds  of  May (1958).

Watch against inordinate sensual delight in even the

-Baxter, Richard
US  businessman,  passenger  on  the  hijacked  United  Airlines Flight 93 on11 September 2001.