He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
Machines might give us more time to think but will never do our thinking for us.
Over time, every way of thinking generates important problems that it cannot solve.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.