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.
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
His thoughts have a high aim, though their dwelling be in the vale of a humble heart.
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!