"No art comes from the conscious mind."
Read quote
4 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 188 of 820)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?"
Read quote
4 likes
"Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for."
Read quote
4 likes
"In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite."
Read quote
4 likes
"It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
Read quote
4 likes
"The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body."
Read quote
4 likes
"The whole point is to discipline the mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others."
Read quote
4 likes
"We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion."
Read quote
4 likes
"The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart."
Read quote
4 likes
"Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there."
Read quote
4 likes
"Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One."
Read quote
4 likes
"I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy."
Read quote
4 likes
"The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind."
Read quote
4 likes
"Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof."
Read quote
4 likes
"Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup."
Read quote
4 likes
"And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?"
Read quote
4 likes
"There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it."
Read quote
4 likes