MIND QUOTES III

quotations about the mind

The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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The mind delights most in being led through a mystic maze before reaching the open door.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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Look in, and know the mind is all that is;
And knowing, feeling it is all,
Then have ye all.

ROBERT LEIGHTON

"Our Wealth Is Within Us"


The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds,
Nor waves, nor winds.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems

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The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe.

JAMES FRAZER

The Golden Bough


The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Father

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A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

ROBERT REED

"Precious Mental", Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1, 2013

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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"

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Some minds are so unclothed that they are indecent.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

BABA HARI DASS

Silence Speaks: from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass

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Everyone's shut off their minds
So I'll turn on mine

CHESTER BENNINGTON

"Walking in Circles"

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Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most.

OZZY OSBOURNE

attributed, Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken

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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

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You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

Average Jones

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It would seem as if, when the mind was once set apart by the natural consequences of the disease, and secluded from the usual occupations of, and customary contact with, other minds, it searched about through all the universe for causes of trouble and anguish. A certain pain probably exists; and even in insanity, man is so far a rational being that he seeks and craves at least the outside and semblance of a reason for a suffering, which is really and truly without reason. Something must be found to justify its anguish to itself.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.

SRI AUROBINDO

Essays Divine and Human

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