We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
Mind Quotes
Shakespeare leads the mind page, with David Hume, Eckhart Tolle, Byron and Horace behind him. Russell’s The ABC of Relativity (1925) is the sourced standout, observing that we all tend to think the world must conform to our prejudices.
“What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind” has a messy history, and the notes tell it. It is credited to Thomas Hewitt Key, who is said to have sent it to Punch in the 1860s, but it had apparently been printed earlier in a magazine called The Month, and it has been given to other people too. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is credited to W. Clement Stone and flagged misattributed. So is a line about the human mind progressing in spirals, credited to Madame de Staël.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,
That man mignt ae'er be wretched for his mind.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.
If we reason a priori, anything may appear able to produce anything.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
There are no dangerous thoughts, thinking itself is dangerous.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.