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Quotes about Mind


A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

Alexander Cannon

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Emerson

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

Everett Dirksen

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Galbraith's Law

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

La Rochefoucauld

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.

Chinese Proverb

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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