best quotations about
Mind |
and Brain
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Quotations
 | You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 15 likes |
 | It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 12 likes |
 | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 10 likes |
 | There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 9 likes |
 | A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 7 likes |
 | To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
 | I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 7 likes |
 | A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
| You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 6 likes |
 | All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 6 likes |
 | Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | There's more to be feared from closed minds than from closed doors. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 5 likes |
 | The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 5 likes |
 | All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
 | The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 4 likes |
 | Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 4 likes |
 | The unfed mind devours itself. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 3 likes |
 | Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
| The mind is always the dupe of the heart. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
 | To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | What is confusing for us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 3 likes |
 | The mind grows with the body, and with it decays. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 3 likes |
 | The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. |
 | Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. |
| Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. |
 | Curiosity is the lust of the mind. |
 | Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. |
 | It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. |
 | The breath of the mind is attention. |
| Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety. |
 | The possession of anything begins in the mind. |
 | The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. |
 | The mind that invents is always dissatisfied with its progress, because it sees beyond. — Jean d’ Alembert, 1717-1783, French physicist & philosopher |
 | A man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. |
 | It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. |
 | Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. |
| The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. |
| The worst old age is that of the mind. |
 | It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. |
 | The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. |
 | The one who has never lost his mind is the one who had no mind to lose. |
 | The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. |
 | The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist. |
 | As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of “mind” with conscious thinking. |
| The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use. |
 | You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else. |
 | Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty. |
 | Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it’s loaded. |
 | Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
Latin Quotes
 | Mind moves matter. Mens agitat molem. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 65 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind. |
Funny Quotes
 | My brain: it's my second favorite organ. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
 | What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 2 likes |
 | If we really stuck with the classic Greek priorities, a sound mind in a sound body, the only two places we'd ever go is to a library or a gym. |
 | I want to reach your mind where is it currently located? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | Mind is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything. Τάχιστον νους, δια παντός γαρ τρέχει. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 16 likes |
 | Your mind, you being here, is elsewhere. Ο νους δε σου παρών αποδημεί. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Knights 11 likes |
 | Physical beauty is an animal trait, if there is no mind beneath. Σώματος κάλλος ζωώδες ήν μη νους υπή. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 9 likes |
 | Bodies destitute of brains are as statues in the marketplace. Αι δε σάρκες αι κεναί φρενών αγάλματα αγοράς εισίν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Electra 3 likes |
