Mind Quotes

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

~ Margaret Fuller

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

~ Edmund Burke

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

~ Henry Rollins

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

~ Pat Buchanan

Religion is just mind control.

~ George Carlin

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

~ Nat Turner

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

~ Karl Marx

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

~ John Burroughs

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

~ Francis Bacon

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

~ Saint Ambrose

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

~ Paul Tournier

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

~ James Martineau

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

~ Simon Sinek

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

~ Summer Sanders

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

~ Tupac Shakur

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

~ Rose Kennedy

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

~ Naveen Jain

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

~ Plato

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

~ Howard Dean

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

~ John Wooden

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

~ John Wooden

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

~ Kendrick Lamar

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

~ William Wallace

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

~ Bob Cousy

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

~ Elyn Saks

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

~ Steven Pinker

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

~ William Butler Yeats

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

~ Tom Araya

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

~ Buddha

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

~ Leo Burnett

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

~ René Descartes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

~ Thomas Jefferson

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

~ Anthony Joshua

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

~ Henri Matisse

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

~ Terence Mckenna