Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
—Dan Quayle (b.1947) American Head of State, Politician, Elected Rep
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
—Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson
One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.
—Unknown
The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Like a fish taken out of its watery home and thrown onto the land, this mind, when parted with its haunts of sensual enjoyments in order to disregard Mara’s (the Evil One’s) influence, will give a desperate struggle.
—Buddhist Teaching
There is no perfection of the wisdom of one who has a fluctuating mind, does not know the good doctrine and has a shaking faith.
—Buddhist Teaching
What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.
—Unknown
If you never change your mind, why have one?
—Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Maltese-British Psychologist, Writer
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.
—Anonymous
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Mind is the master power that molds and makes,
And man is mind, and ever more he takes
The tool of thought, and shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
—James Allen (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer
As a mountain of solid rock remains unshaken by the storm, so the wise man remains unmoved by praise or blame.
—Buddhist Teaching
A well-wishing mind which is well-trained, made unlimited and complete has no limited Karma (action) left.
—Buddhist Teaching
Don’t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.
—Unknown
The mind, like the dyer’s hand, is colored by what it holds.
—Indian Proverb
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
—Edmund Spenser (1552–99) English Poet
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
The mind’s deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man’s unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Author
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
—Buddhist Teaching
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
—Wayne Dyer (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
—W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
Prosperity begins with a state of mind.
—Indian Proverb
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
—Zhuang Zhou (c.369–c.286 BCE) Chinese Taoist Philosopher
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
—Unknown
You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors—how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.
—John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) American Christian Science Religious Leader, Humanitarian, Writer
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
—Norman Cousins (1915–90) American Journalist, Author, Academic, Activist
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
—David Sarnoff (1891–1972) American Broadcaster, Businessman
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams—can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet