The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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.
There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.
A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Everything which the ego is able to unfold within itself must give birth to love.
He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.