The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
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.
Poetry — No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego.
There's nothing that's ever happened in the world that didn't start in one human mind.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.