In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quotes About Mind
Sophocles warned that those who boast of possessing a unique mind often prove hollow on inspection. Rabindranath Tagore argued the opposite, holding that most people wrongly believe the mind to be a mirror reflecting the world outside, when in fact the mind is itself the principal element of creation. Augustine held that readers discern the truth of what they read in themselves, provided the light of truth has penetrated their minds. Anton Chekhov offered a realist's caution, noting that once a man gets a fixed idea, there is simply nothing to be done about it. Karl Marx saw that the human mind is powerless before occurrences it cannot understand, and he placed that impotence at the root of religion itself.
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
— The Prince and the Pauper
The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.
— The Waves
Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
— Crime and Punishment
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
— David Copperfield
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
— Anna Karenina
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
— 1984
Grief is a hone to a hard mind.
— The Children of Húrin
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored
— The Analysis of Mind
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.
— Letters of Thomas Jefferson
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— The Philosophy of Aristotle
Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
— The Republic
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
— Strength to Love
To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.
— Faust, Part Two
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
— Meditations
I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
— The Open Door
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
— Pebble in the Sky
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
— The Imp of The Perverse
The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.
— The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.
— The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
— Culture and Value
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
— Discourse on Method
I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.
— Complete Works