logo

Quotes About Mind

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
~ David O. McKay
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
~ Frederick Lenz
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.
~ John Stuart Mill
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
~ Poul Anderson
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
~ John Kluge
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
~ Hilary Mantel
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
~ Plutarch
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
~ Khalil Gibran
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.
~ Dalai Lama
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.
~ John Ashbery
That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.
~ Tracy Spiridakos
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
~ John Donne
If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.
~ Roshan Sharma
Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.
~ James C. Emlund
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.
~ Clay Christensen
A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
~ Erol Ozan
And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.
~ Rae La Rae
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
~ Walter Gropius