A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
– Plutarch
Related Quotes:
- When the fire is lighted within your soul, can’t help it, but to burn. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. – Idries Shah
- Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled. – GG Renee Hill
- …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
- In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. – Plutarch
- We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones. – Tamara Stamenkovic
- If there was anything he’d learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn’t work, piss on the fire to put it out. – Marissa Clarke
- If you answer fire with fire, only the fire will be the winner.Si al fuego se le contesta con fuego, sólo el fuego vencerá. #quote – Juan Luis Ortiz Hidalgo
- Fire does transform, but the fire within is always better than fire beneath! – Harrish Sairaman
- Your path should be lighted with love and trust, your purpose should be clear, and your goal should be the light post. – Debasish Mridha
- The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. – Stephen Crane
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark. – Leonardo da Vinci
- It’s hard to have a serious conversation with you when you’re wearin’ lighted ????s on your – Lorelei James
- Deb and I were married on a snowy night – wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church… – John Geddes
- Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause. – Plutarch
- The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. – Plutarch
- An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. – Plutarch
- The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. – Plutarch
- It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. – Plutarch
- To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- There’s nothing greater than having a heart filled with love…& eyes filled with light:-) – JL Hunt
- There’s a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit. – Stephen Sondheim
- I just thought I was empty and now I’m being filled…and I just wanted to keep being filled. – Laura Hillenbrand
- I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane. – Debbie Vigui
- You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate. – Alice Sebold
- If one’s mind becomes conflict-free, that is -˜moksha’; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life. – Dada Bhagwan
- The true Mind is one that exists before and beyond one’s delusional, self-centered, attachment-filled mind. – Woo Myung
- The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none. – Morgan Rhodes
- For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet. – Nennius
- Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace. – Debasish Mridha
- When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren’t on a paper vessel and lost to the wind. – Dixie Waters
- Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel – Paige Omartian
- Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time. – Germany Kent
- The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on. – Katy Tackes
- Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope. – Germany Kent
- I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer. – Osamu Dazai
- Acceptance is the vessel of realization. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Be broken and pride will have no vessel. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
- Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in. – Anthony Kiedis