Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Unfathomable mind,
now beacon, now sea.
-Samuel Beckett
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down,
and requires to be as constantly wound up.
-William Hazlitt
What the mind doesn't see
and the mind doesn't know,
doesn't exist.
-D. H. Lawrence
What the mind doesn't understand,
it worships or fears.
-Alice Walker
What is troubling us
is the tendency to believe that the mind
is like a little man within.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
An ill principle in the mind
is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
-Benjamin Whichcote
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this,
that the impressions it receives the oftenest,
and retains the longest, are the black ones.
-Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers.
Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind.
You are really etching chemical patterns.
In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns,
just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
-Steve Jobs
A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magnifies trifling things,
but cannot receive great ones.
-Eliza Cook
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread.
But we let them spread as little as possible:
we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge,
as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
We patch and tinker more than we renew.
The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass;
but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
-William James
I believe that the mind can be profaned
by the habit of attending to trivial things.
-Henry David Thoreau
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas,
as the tree does its withered leaves!
-Andre Gide
A mind too active is no mind at all.
-Theodore Roethke
This morning it rained.
This afternoon it is sunny.
How is that not like the mind?
-Michael Kewley
The mind self-edits.
The mind airbrushes.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
Some minds are so unclothed
that they are indecent.
-Austin O'Malley
Put yourself in a different room,
that's what the mind is for.
-Margaret Atwood
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up
until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
-Anthony Trollope
The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work
in while the parlor remains clean.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Your mind is your predicament.
-Dan Millman
A mind enclosed in language
is in prison.
-Simone Weil
We are caught in the prison of the mind.
If we are to escape we must recognize that we are in prison.
If we think we are free, then no escape is possible.
-George I. Gurdjieff
Mind keeps the soul prisoner.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The mind is its own place, and it itself
Can make a heaven or hell,
or a hell of heaven.
-John Milton
A mind enlightened is heaven;
a mind darkened is hell.
-Chinese Proverb
Is there no way out of the mind?
-Sylvia Plath
To set up what you like
against what you dislike -
that is the disease of the mind.
-Seng T'san
A mind divided against itself
cannot be a healthy mind!
-Rebecca Clark
The will ... is the driving force of the mind.
If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
-August Strindberg
A man who is helpless before his own mind
is helpless before everything in the world.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
-Louisa May Alcott
What then do I wish to make
of this piece of my mind?
A garden or a slaughterhouse?
-Hugh Prather
You have two choices:
to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
-Paul Coelho
that they are indecent.
-Austin O'Malley
Put yourself in a different room,
that's what the mind is for.
-Margaret Atwood
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up
until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
-Anthony Trollope
The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work
in while the parlor remains clean.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Your mind is your predicament.
-Dan Millman
A mind enclosed in language
is in prison.
-Simone Weil
We are caught in the prison of the mind.
If we are to escape we must recognize that we are in prison.
If we think we are free, then no escape is possible.
-George I. Gurdjieff
Mind keeps the soul prisoner.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The mind is its own place, and it itself
Can make a heaven or hell,
or a hell of heaven.
-John Milton
A mind enlightened is heaven;
a mind darkened is hell.
-Chinese Proverb
Is there no way out of the mind?
-Sylvia Plath
To set up what you like
against what you dislike -
that is the disease of the mind.
-Seng T'san
A mind divided against itself
cannot be a healthy mind!
-Rebecca Clark
The will ... is the driving force of the mind.
If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
-August Strindberg
A man who is helpless before his own mind
is helpless before everything in the world.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
-Louisa May Alcott
What then do I wish to make
of this piece of my mind?
A garden or a slaughterhouse?
-Hugh Prather
You have two choices:
to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
-Paul Coelho
