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Quotes About Mind

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
~ Curtis Mayfield
Man is an imagining being.
~ Gaston Bachelard
No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
~ George MacDonald
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
~ Ramana Maharshi
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.
~ Rene Dubos
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
~ A. A. Milne
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
~ Anatole France
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The key to every man is his thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
~ John Selden
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
~ William Blake
An angry man is full of poison.
~ Confucius
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
~ Elizabeth I
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
~ Epictetus
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
~ Fred Allen
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
~ Jupiter Hammon
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
~ Albert Einstein
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
~ Annie Besant