Mind Quotes

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

ROBERTSON DAVIES, quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes

To know psychology ... is no guarantee that we shall manage our minds rightly.

WILLIAM GLOVER, Know Your Own Mind

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES, Middlesex

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.

HORACE MANN, 

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND, Lessons in Life 

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

HANS MARGOLIUS, quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity