The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
~ Sigmund Freud
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
~ Friedrich August Von Hayek
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
~ Bodhidharma
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
~ Eve Arnold
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
~ Ninon De L'enclos
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
~ Charles Dickens
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
~ David Ogden Stiers
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
~ Gautam Singhania
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
~ Ralph Marston
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
~ Eugène Ionesco
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
~ Nikola Tesla
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.
~ Sara Sampaio
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
~ Ronald Reagan
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
~ V. E. Schwab
I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
~ Bo Burnham
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
~ Alejandro González Iñárritu
It was never in my mind to be famous.
~ Francois Nars
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
~ Claire Tomalin
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
~ Radhanath Swami
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
~ Johannes Kepler
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~ George Santayana
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
~ Barack Obama
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
~ Matthew Green
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
~ Galileo Galilei
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
~ Albert Einstein
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~ Washington Irving
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
~ Auguste Rodin
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~ Virginia Woolf
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
~ Marian Anderson
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
~ Tansy Rayner Roberts
