Mind Quotes

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

George Jessel

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Marilyn Ferguson

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Kahlil Gibran

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

Henry Courtney

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Virginia Woolf

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Meher Baba

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

Bhagavad Gita

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Henry Miller

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Gunther Grass