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- The mind is its own place, and in itself
- Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, The Evolution of Physics
The march of the human mind is slow.
EDMUND BURKE, speech, Mar. 22, 1775
- The mind
- Is so hospitable, taking in everything
- Like boarders, and you don’t see until
- It’s all over how little there was to learn
- Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.
JOHN ASHBERY, "Houseboat Days"
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
YODA, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, speech, Aug. 16, 1967
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.
DAVID HUME, A Treatise of Human Nature
To know psychology ... is no guarantee that we shall manage our minds rightly.
WILLIAM GLOVER, Know Your Own Mind
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father
- My mind to me a kingdom is,
- Such perfect joy therein I find,
- That it excels all other bliss
- That world affords or grows by kind.
EDWARD DYER, My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
- It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
- That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
HANS MARGOLIUS, quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity
- The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man,
- A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
MICHAEL DRAYTON, The Barrons' Wars
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.
ALFRED L. KROEBER, The Superorganic
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harvard University, Sept. 6, 1943
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
SCROPE BERDMORE DAVIES, letter to Thomas Raikes, May, 1835
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
HERMANN HESSE, letter read at Nobel banquet, Dec. 10, 1946
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
DANIEL CREVIER, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
Yoga is the cessation of mind.
PATANJALI, The Yoga Sutras
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most.
OZZY OSBOURNE, quoted in Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken
When I think of myself my mind cannot soar to higher things but is like a bird with broken wings.
TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.
JOHN SAUL, Black Lightning
The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Brisingr
- Our mind is but a lump of clay
- That Fate, grim potter, holds
- On sorrow's wheel that rolls away,
- And, as he pleases, moulds.
BHARTRHARI, "On Time the Destroyer"
The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, advertising slogan
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