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.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?
Organizations are presumed to talk to themselves over and over to find out what they are thinking.
Really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems.
Minds are formed by our social interactions in a community and a culture.
I am not sure whether there can be a way of really understanding the miracle of thinking.
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.