“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.”

Attributed

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw…" by Michel De Montaigne?
Michel De Montaigne photo
Michel De Montaigne 264
(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

Related quotes

Jane Austen photo

“I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter (1813-11-06) on the reprint of Sense and Sensibility [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Thomas Carlyle photo

“Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Pt. I, Bk. VI, ch. 3.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

John Locke photo

“Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"”

William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 310.

Niccolo Machiavelli photo
John Hall photo
Peter Sellers photo
Aeschylus photo

“The field of Sin
Brings forth the fruits of Death.”

Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 601 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

Alan Moore photo
Je Tsongkhapa photo

Related topics