MIND QUOTES V

quotations about the mind

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, February 1930

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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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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 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.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh

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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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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


You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

EMIL CIORAN

The Trouble with Being Born

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The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

HERMANN HESSE

letter read at Nobel banquet, December 10, 1946

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The mind is a chaotic place, turbulent on a whim. And each mind is individually unique, and thus uniquely chaotic.

DUALSHOCKERS STAFF

DualShockers, December 12, 2017


Few minds wear out; more rust out.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Empires will fall--dynasties fade away; but the mind of man will survive the destruction of all inanimate matter--its destiny is eternal.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.

WILLIAM GIBSON

The Difference Engine

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Yoga is the cessation of mind.

PATANJALI

The Yoga Sutras

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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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There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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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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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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