Quotes about mind
Welcome to our Mind collection, a journey into the intricate landscape of thoughts, perceptions, and the endless possibilities that arise from the depths of the human consciousness. In this curated compilation of quotes, we explore the complexities of the mind, celebrating its creativity, the power of focus, and the transformative potential it holds.
The mind is more than a mere organ; it's the wellspring of ideas, the canvas of imagination, and the nexus of our unique experiences. Our Mind quotes honor the beauty of mindfulness, the expansiveness of curiosity, and the way the mind shapes our perceptions of the world and ourselves.
Whether you're an advocate for mental health, captivated by the wonders of neuroscience, or simply drawn to the exploration of human cognition, these quotes offer insights into the profound role and the boundless capacities of the human mind.
Embark on a journey that celebrates the power of positive thinking, the art of focusing intention, and the connection between mind and body. Discover the stories of resilience that arise from nurturing a healthy mind, the empowerment that comes from understanding mental processes, and the limitless potential that emerges when we tap into the untapped corners of our consciousness.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Antonio Machado
— PoetHas my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence
James Fitzjames Stephen
— Eminent Lawyer, Judge & Thoughtful WriterPersuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
Craig Stone
— English footballerThey say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodWholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
Ben Jonson
— English playwright and poetPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistIt is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianIt would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
Buddha
— LeaderTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Jackie Chan
— Hong Kong actor, director, martial artist and stuntmanWhen I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderCivilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistYou must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
Paul Zane Pilzer
— American economist, New York Times best-selling author, and social entrepreneurHow much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsEvery human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God’s children; then you will be in love with all.
Gish Jen
— American writer and speakerThat there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.
Bobby McFerrin
— American folk-jazz vocalistI don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
Julie Andrews
— English actress, singer, and authorMiracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.
Katharine Hepburn
— American actress of film, stage and televisionIt would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Ludwig von Mises
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistAgainst what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
Jay-Z
— American rapper, songwriter, record executive, entrepreneur, and media proprietorWhen you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.
Kylie Minogue
— Australian singer and actressI love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerIn my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you don't want to. Even now, it's very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I'm like, It's been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I'm thinking only about them?
Jessica Bird
— American novelistAn Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.
Fujio Mitarai
— Chairman and CEO of Canon IncI changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
Mary Lou Williams
— American jazz pianist, arranger, and composerMany people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
Carl Zimmer
— Popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalistThe hand is where the mind meets the world.
Elzhi
— American rappeMy mind's monumental, my pen is penetration
That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerThus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
Chris Hadfield
— Canadian AstronautNothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.
Boban Marjanovic
— Serbian Basketball PlayerSometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but the mind has to be ready for the next game and get focused for the next game and helps you for next win.
Ari Aster
— American DirectorIt's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.
Robert G. Allen
— BusinessmanCreating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
Gabrielle Bernstein
— New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast hostEach time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to our truth, which is love. Creating these shifts requires a dedicated commitment to choosing love.
John Adams
— American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding FatherThere is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
Catherine Tate
— English actress, comedian, and writerFew things focus the mind like fear.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWho can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistThe minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodThe ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderThe division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistEven the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsWhen the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
Bobby McFerrin
— American folk-jazz vocalistI bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.
Ludwig von Mises
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistIf you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerBeauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianStudy detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
Jessica Bird
— American novelistIndeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerThe grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.
Ben Jonson
— English playwright and poetMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
Jackie Chan
— Hong Kong actor, director, martial artist and stuntmanThe ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistReason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.
Alexander Pope
— English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan periodWhat Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderThe mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsAt the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.
Ludwig von Mises
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistPerhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerBeauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianWhen two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
Jessica Bird
— American novelistThe mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerAny appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistYou are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistReason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderThe practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsImagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
Ludwig von Mises
— Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologistThere are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.
Jennifer Lopez
— American singer, actress, and dancerYou have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.
Isaac Watts
— English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logicianTalking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Herman Melville
— American novelist, short story writerIt is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
Oprah Winfrey
— American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropistWhatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.
David Hume
— Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayistReason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
— French military and political leaderA well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Eknath Easwaran
— Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious textsWhenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.