Quotes About Mind

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind!

A penny for your thought.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.

Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.