"Language is the light of the mind"
Read quote
6 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 163 of 820)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast."
Read quote
6 likes
"It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there."
Read quote
6 likes
"And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change."
Read quote
6 likes
"The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith."
Read quote
6 likes
"Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)"
Read quote
6 likes
"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
Read quote
6 likes
"Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter."
Read quote
6 likes
"The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind."
Read quote
6 likes
"It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work."
Read quote
6 likes
"An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages."
Read quote
6 likes
"The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter."
Read quote
6 likes
"The principal fact of life is the free mind."
Read quote
6 likes
"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
Read quote
6 likes
"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
Read quote
6 likes
"Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart."
Read quote
6 likes
"What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?"
Read quote
6 likes
"I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention."
Read quote
6 likes
"We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts."
Read quote
6 likes
"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."
Read quote
6 likes