Quotes about mind page 3
“Love is the unity of soul, mind and body. Pay attention to the precedence… ”
Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
“If you can change people's minds — you can change the world.”
Marina Abramović (1946) Yugoslav-American artist
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist
Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
“Remember: You can reach any goal you have in mind.”
Nick Vujicic (1982) Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Reagan reportedly displayed a plaque with this proverbial aphorism on his Oval Office desk (Michael Reagan, The New Reagan Revolution (2010), p. 177). Harry S. Truman is reported to have repeated versions of the aphorism on several occasions. This exact wording was in wide circulation in the 1960s, and the earliest known variant has been attributed to Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893).
Misattributed
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
Uprising (1979)
Variant: None but ourselves can free our minds.
Context: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
Actually said by Napoleon Hill, Stone later added the line "...with P.M.A." (Positive Mental Attitude) to the end of this quote.
Misattributed
Variant: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
“To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.”
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
§ 1.33
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.”
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist
“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Source: Nan-Hua-Ch'en-Ching, or, the Treatise of the transcendent master from Nan-Hua
“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 59-60
“If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“I didn't lose my mind,
it was mine to give away”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Variant: There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Context: I had reasoned dis out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Source: J.M.W. Turner
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Variant: The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Bernard Baruch in response to a question by Igor Cassini as to how he handled the seating arrangements at his dinner parties, as quoted in Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) by Bennett Cerf, p. 249; the full response was "I never bother about that. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." This anecdote is also quoted online at Chiasmus.com http://www.chiasmus.com/archive/msg00241.html. It has also become part of a larger expression, which has been commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss, even in print, but without citation of a specific work: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 147.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
Variant: A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body
Context: Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”
Joseph Murphy (1898–1981) American writer
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind -
“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor
“What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Remarks to John Wisdom, quoted in Zen and the Work of WIttgenstein by Paul Weinpaul in The Chicago Review Vol. 12, (1958), p. 70
Attributed from posthumous publications
B.K.S. Iyengar book Light on Yoga
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 28
Source: Light on Yoga
Context: Health is not to be mistaken for mere existence. It is the balance of the body, mind and self... there rests the mind. If the breath scatters, the mind wanders. If mind wanders, the breath scatters. So still the breath to still the mind. Mind is the king.
“Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Source: Mind is your Business
“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four
Source: The Sign of Four
“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Kristin Cast book Marked
Source: Marked
Nikola Tesla book My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
My Inventions (1919)
Source: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Context: The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle.… I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Variant: Is there no way out of the mind?
“Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.”
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) Austrian poet and author
Source: Simultan: Erzählungen
Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Source: You Can Change the World (2003), p. 86.
Michael Phelps (1985) American swimmer
Upon winning his eighth straight Gold medal and having set his eighth straight Olympic record, as well as his seventh world record, in his eight events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 17 August 2008. (Source: [Phelps wins historic eighth gold medal, CNN, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/08/17/phelps.history.eight.golds/])
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XVI, lines 79–83 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Anthony the Great (251–357) Christian saint, monk, and hermit
The Living Testament: The Essential Writings of Christianity Since the Bible (1985), p. 66.
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
From Cosmic Religion: with Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), Albert Einstein, pub. Covici-Friede. Quoted in The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (May 30, 2000); Page 208, ISBN 0691070210
1930s
Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman
Attributed to Watson in: Georg Blair, Sandy Meadows (1996) A Real-Life Guide to Organizational Change. p. 117.
Julius Evola (1898–1974) Italian philosopher and esotericist
American "Civilization" (from "Civilta Americana") http://lkwdpl.org/wildideas/mysticalgeography.html
“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,