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Quotes About Mind

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
~ Max Lerner
So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
~ Juvenal
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
~ Plutarch
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
~ Ben Jonson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~ Samuel Johnson
If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
~ Anonymous
We forget because we must And not because we will.
~ Matthew Arnold
Memory is the thing you forget with.
~ Alexander Chase
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To want to forget something is to think of it.
~ French proverb
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
~ Samuel Johnson
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
~ T. H. Key
A feeble body weakens the mind.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.
~ Sasha Stallone
Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"
~ Gerald Jampolsky
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
~ Juvenal
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
~ Adelbert Ames
A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
~ Mary Bly
Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
~ John Draper
Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
~ Anonymous
Time-our youth-it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.
~ Helen Hoover Santmyer