Quotes about Mind
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
- Hippocrates
Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
- John Milton
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
- Napoleon Hill
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
- Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
- William Wilberforce
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
- Vance Havner
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
- John Owen
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
- St. Thomas Aquinas