mind Quotes

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

To live is to think.

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.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

We think too much and feel too little.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.