Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.
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.
He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition.
Anyway, you think for yourself. And if a man can’t do that, he isn’t really thinking.
It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.