Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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.
Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.
A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one, and the real one.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.