mind quotes

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.