"As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence."
Read quote
22 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 42 of 820)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements."
Read quote
22 likes
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
Read quote
22 likes
"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit."
Read quote
22 likes
"Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people."
Read quote
22 likes
"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life."
Read quote
22 likes
"Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety."
Read quote
22 likes
"You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising."
Read quote
22 likes
"O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you"
Read quote
22 likes
"Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world."
Read quote
22 likes
"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached."
Read quote
22 likes
"An open heart is an open mind."
Read quote
21 likes
"We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness."
Read quote
21 likes
"Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness."
Read quote
21 likes
"As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does."
Read quote
21 likes
"The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent."
Read quote
21 likes
"Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness."
Read quote
21 likes
". . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind."
Read quote
21 likes
"To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact."
Read quote
21 likes
"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."
Read quote
21 likes