Quotes About Mind

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.