Mind Quotes

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.

It's all in the mind.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.
We become each and every piece within the game called life!

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.
Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

Where to look if you've lost your mind?