Quotations about

Mind

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it.

—David J. Schwartz in The Magic of Thinking Big

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

—Andy Gibb

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

—Horace

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

—E. Joseph Cossman

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

—Sitting Bull

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed

Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

—Joseph Addison

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call "mind"—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

—Carl Sagan in The Dragons of Eden