Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.