Charles Caleb Colton - Mind Quotes

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Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra, where all the instruments should bear a part, but where none should play together.

Charles Caleb Colton
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Charles Caleb Colton
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.

Charles Caleb Colton