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Quotes About Mind

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
~ George Edward Woodberry
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
~ George Herbert
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
~ George Herbert
It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
~ Gertrude Atherton
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.
~ Loren Eiseley
Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!
~ M. Leighton
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.
~ Magha
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
~ Max Lerner
A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.
~ Milt Gross
Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
~ Napoleon Hill
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
~ Napoleon Hill
A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
~ Paul Valery