"Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray."
Read quote
9 likes
Mind quotes
Mind
16.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mind
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mind — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mind quotes (page 103 of 820)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality."
Read quote
9 likes
"If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish."
Read quote
9 likes
"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
Read quote
9 likes
"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
Read quote
9 likes
"It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary."
Read quote
9 likes
"Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!"
Read quote
9 likes
"With women, the heart argues, not the mind."
Read quote
9 likes
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
Read quote
9 likes
"As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology."
Read quote
9 likes
"There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate."
Read quote
9 likes
"It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end."
Read quote
9 likes
"He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple."
Read quote
9 likes
"I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it"
Read quote
9 likes
"What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them."
Read quote
9 likes
"I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds."
Read quote
9 likes
"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
Read quote
9 likes
"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it."
Read quote
9 likes
"Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them."
Read quote
9 likes
"The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for."
Read quote
9 likes