Quotes About Mind

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.