Quotes about Mind
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
- David O. McKay
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
- Edmund Burke
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
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
- Alexander Hamilton
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
- Cicero
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
- Napoleon Hill
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
- Publilius Syrus
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
- Henry Ward Beecher
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
- Herman Melville
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
- Seneca
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
- Mark Twain