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.
Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise;
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
Showing the unreality of Time.
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they wore born for immortality.
It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.