Even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. Leonard da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Imagination, which in truth,
Is but another name for absolute power
And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
And Reason, in her most exalted mood. William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1850
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. Horace Walpole
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. Samuel Johnson
Test the way our brains interpret the world and its complex systems. Dara O’Briain’s Science Club s2e1: Mindbending, BBC 2013
The science behind unconscious group behaviour or swarming is new and fascinating. ibid.
The subconscious is the source of our primal fears and desires. The well-spring of our dreams. The place where our alter-egos lurk. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s3e8: Mysteries of the Subconscious, Science 2012
10% of autistics are savants. ibid.
Science has proven that we really do have two minds. ibid.
Our brains are biological computers vulnerable to data theft. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s4e6: Can Our Minds Be Hacked? Science 2013
A laboratory in California has already begun to translate thoughts into pictures and words. ibid.
Somehow the average citizen thinks that his or her mind could never be manipulated, and yet every day we’re manipulated by each other, we’re manipulated by advertising – a thousand things impact and manipulate us in different ways. Dr Margaret Singer, Emeritus Professor Berkley UC
If you don’t take responsibility for what goes into your mind somebody else will. Cult leaders, politicians, advertisers all seek to implant their message in your mind. Whether it is for your good or not. Paul McKenna, hypnotist
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic. J B S Haldane
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Nietzsche
Your mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives. Albert Einstein, summarised & attributed by Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind, 1976
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published was ‘Sì, abbiamo un’anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot’ – ‘Yes, we have a soul, but it’s made of lots of tiny robots’. And I thought, exactly. That’s the view. Yes, we have a soul, but in what sense? In the sense that our brains, unlike the brains even of dogs and cats and chimpanzees and dolphins, our brains have functional structures that give our brains powers that no other brains have – powers of look-ahead, primarily. We can understand our position in the world, we can see the future, we can understand where we came from. We know that we’re here. No buffalo knows it’s a buffalo, but we jolly well know that we’re members of Homo sapiens, and it’s the knowledge that we have and the can-do, our capacity to think ahead and to reflect and to evaluate and to evaluate our evaluations, and evaluate the grounds for our evaluations.
It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation. Daniel C Dennett
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. Humphry Davy
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap. Anthony Hopkins
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time. Tupac Shakur
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. Martin Luther King junior, speech 16th August 1967
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them. Veronica Roth, Divergent
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
I’m crazy. I’m nuts. Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently. Justin Beiber
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe, Complete
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles, Antigone