It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
—John Burroughs
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
—Mark Twain
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Sir Richard Steele
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
—James Allen
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf
My mind's my kingdom.
—Francis Quarles
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
—Shannon L. Alder
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
—Edwin Way Teale
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
—Walter Scott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
—Plutarch
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.
—Katherine Mansfield
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control — your mind and your mouth.
—Molefi Kete Asante
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
—Jawaharlal Nehru