Quotes on mind
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
Shaw, George Bernard
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Collins, Mortimer
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Dickens, Charles
With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
Johnson, Samuel
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
Cabanis, Pierre
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.
Alauda, Astrid
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.
Solegato, Linda
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Irving, Washington
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Mansfield, Katherine
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Hoffer, Eric
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
Bennett, Arnold
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Allen, Woody