MIND QUOTES V

quotations about the mind

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, August 16, 1967

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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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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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It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

ANAIS NIN

diary, November 1933

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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

SENECA

Thyestes

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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

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The mind, when compelled, by education or other circumstances, to receive irrational doctrines, has yet a power of keeping them, as it were, on its surface, of excluding them from its depths, of refusing to incorporate them with its own being; and when burdened with a mixed and incongruous system, it often discovers a sagacity which reminds us of the instinct of inferior animals, in selecting the healthful and nutritious portions, and in making them its daily food.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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Yoga is the cessation of mind.

PATANJALI

The Yoga Sutras

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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

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"I must really improve my Mind," I tell myself, and once more begin to patch and repair that crazy structure. So I toil and toil on at the vain task of edification, though the wind tears off the tiles, the floors give way, the ceilings fall, strange birds build untidy nests in the rafters, and owls hoot and laugh in the tumbling chimneys.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Trivia

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If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lecture V, "Pragmatism and Common Sense", Pragmatism

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Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

The Vicar of Tours

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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

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The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man,
A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

MICHAEL DRAYTON

The Barrons' Wars

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

MARK TWAIN

letter to James Redpath, August 8, 1871

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

JOHN ADAMS

attributed, Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected

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