Mind Quotes

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

~ James Joyce

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

~ James Patterson

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

~ Seneca

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The mind of man is capable of anything.

~ Joseph Conrad

All problems are illusions of the mind.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

~ Isaac Asimov

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

~ Bernard Malamud

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

~ Giovanni Boccaccio

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

~ Haruki Murakami

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

~ Pete Wentz

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

~ Bodhidharma

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

~ Gary Snyder

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

~ Scott Westerfeld

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

~ George R.r. Martin

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

~ Kristin Cashore

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

~ Obert Skye

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

~ Steven Wright

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only, all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

~ Sivananda Saraswati

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.

~ Jolynne Valerie

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

~ Samuel Beckett

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

~ Criss Jami

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

~ Gary Zukav

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.

~ Rico Dasheem

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

~ William Feather

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

~ Alexander Shulgin

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on, then you can write a novel.

~ James M. Cain

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

~ James A. Kitchens

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

~ Jeff Lindsay

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

~ Dee Remy

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

~ Wendy Wasserstein

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

~ Walter De La Mare