Quotes about mind

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Often polished into "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The key word is "foolish" — he is not against consistency as such.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

I think, therefore I am.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Have courage to use your own understanding!

Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The Brain – is wider than the Sky.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.