Mind Quotes - page 5

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. (Rene Magritte)
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. View quote
Tryon Edwards
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. View quote
John Milton
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. View quote
Christopher Morley
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. View quote
Patañjali
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. View quote
Henry Winkler
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. View quote
Groucho Marx
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. View quote
John Updike
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A mind too active is no mind at all. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. View quote
James Madison
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? View quote
John Lennon
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. (William Hazlitt)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. View quote
Mick Jagger
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. View quote
Blaise Pascal