6,568 Quotes About Mind

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....

Overwhelming' is the only word that comes to mind.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.