The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
Edith Hamilton
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My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.
NOAH BENSHEA The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
STEPHEN KING Wisdom is when the heart feels what the mind already knows.
JIM GENOVESE The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is ...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand
ROBERT VALETT The answer we can't find lies beyond what we know, but not beyond an open mind and heart.
JIM GENOVESE Lies are insulting to the mind and hurtful to the heart.
RMME Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
SIMONE SCHWARZ-BART The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
JOHN GIBSON I hate it
the way the heart
takes too long
to figure out what the mind
already k...
R.H. SIN Your heart often knows things before your mind does.
POLLY ADLER Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fi...
SUZY KASSEM The heart knows what it feels.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Logic is trying to trick my mind into believing that what my heart is saying, is a lie ~
That'...
NIKKI ROWE The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash.
ROSEMARIE YUSEN My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies
MUNIA KHAN The idle mind knows not what it wants.
ENNIUS I spend my days trying to remember what only my soul knows but my mind can't comprehend.
RANEEM KAYYALI When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness ...
T.F. HODGE Love knows no reasons,
love knows no lies.
Love defies all reasons,
love has no eyes.
But love is no...
OLASOT Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how y...
COLLEEN HOOVER Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out."
...
JOHN WILLIAMS What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow
JAMES STEPHENS Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen t...
HENRY WINKLER The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very he...
GEORGE J. SEIDEL Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON All the research centers in life today combined together can not be compared to one active,sound & m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mind is the biggest research center in the universe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;some people believe that somethings are mind corrupting,not knowing that they've actual...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP The heart never lies
CHRISTINE LOVE NEVER DIES Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?
JULIE KAGAWA The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
JEREMY COLLIER We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinne...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laur...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN What touches heart and not mind, only needs to be shared,promoted or commented.One would never feel ...
ANUJ SOMANY The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let peopl...
SHANNON L. ALDER I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL Listen to your mind; it thinks. Hear your heart; it speaks. Hearken to your soul; it knows.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Binoculars are a distance when near the eyes. Far from home, near the heart, love.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Edith, stifle yourself!
NORMAN LEAR Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers.
AMIT RAY My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the diffe...
CASSANDRA CLARE ..and she loved him in that hidden place, where only the Soul knows the secrets of the heart...
EILY NASH She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
EDITH PATTOU I was working my way into Edith Head's department.
GRACE VILLARREAL And Ciara was like, 'What I'm doing is about the heart and the soul,' ... And I'm like, 'What heart?...
JAGUAR WRIGHT Only you can see what your mind is prepared to see.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das He...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; ...
TIORIO Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsight...
JIM BACKUS The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with for...
INGRID BETANCOURT The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON Home, is where the heart longs to be when you dream.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
PAULO COELHO What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
ABERJHANI Resentment lies in the heart of fools.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Modern society is large and complex, with institutions wielding great power over the lives of many. ...
DAVID MCRANEY The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash
ROSEMARIE YUSEN Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
SICILIAN PROVERB Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
ITALIAN PROVERB In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the h...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Close your mind open your heart and trust the unknown .It's the only way to know.
KAT MORGAN The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
CAROLINE MYSS What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.
JESSICA HAHN You are my heart,” he said. He’d said those very words to her that morning. But that morning, th...
TIFFANY REISZ The hard-fought battle between HEART & MIND to form and shape decision is always won by HEART in lif...
ANUJ SOMANY Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.
SHANNON L. ALDER The only things that matter are what God knows and what the scoreboard shows.
MARCUS MAYO Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.
ANNE FINCH The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.
ANTHONY LICCIONE God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels...
JOHN D. RICHARDSON Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that alre...
TOBA BETA It's primarily a hotel (issue). In Hamilton, we only have one major hotel.
JANICE SMITH If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woo...
JOSS WHEDON It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
BRANDON SANDERSON I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
LAURA BRANIGAN The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something y...
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EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON