Mind Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

45 Mind Quotes
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“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu Quotes
“Love is a decision - not an emotion”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate”
Alexandre Dumas Père Quotes
“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”
Douglas Adams Quotes
“Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Longinus of the Sublime (sect. 9)
“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Atheism
“The last infirmity of noble mind.”
Jan van olden Barneveldt Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barneveldt
“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.”
Bishop George Berkeley Quotes
Source: Principles of Human Knowledge
“Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Peter (ch. III, v. 8-9)
“And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Mark (ch. V, v. 15)
“One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Romans (ch. XIV, v. 5)
“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Paracelsus (II)
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
“Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 161)
“My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse That God or Nature hath assignde Though much I want that most would have Yet still my minde forbids to crave.”
William Byrd (Bird) Quotes
Source: his rendering of Dyer's verse when he set it to music
“I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind.”
John Byrom Quotes
Source: Careless Content
“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
“'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 60)
“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 647)
“The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 19)
“The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus (XI)
“The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 3)