Quotes About Mind

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.