“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”
“Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.”
“Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.”
“You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.”
“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
“What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.”
“Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.”
“Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.”
“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.”
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''”
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
“He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.”
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
“He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.”
“It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”
“The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?”
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.”
“The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.”
“The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.”
“Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.”
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
“A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.”
“Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.”
“The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.”
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.”
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”