No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. Kahlil Gilbran, The Prophet
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm S Forbes
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. Iris Murdoch
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. Peter Ustinov
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilised and enriched with foreign matter. Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, December 1769
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. John Ruskin
My mind felt like a plumber’s handkerchief. Farewell, My Lovely aka Murder, My Sweet 1944 starring Dick Powell & Claire Trevor & Anne Shirley & Otto Kruger & Miles Mander & Mike Mazurki & Douglas Walton & Ralf Harolde & Esther Howard & Ernie Adams et al, director Edward Dmytryk, Marlowe
One thing you cannot enslave is the human mind. A Bullet for Joey 1955 starring Peter van Eyck & Edward G Robinson & George Raft & Audrey Totter & George Dolenz, director Lewis Allen, Robinson
Kryten: Keep that safe; it’s Lister’s mind.
Cat: [drops mini cassette in cup of tea] Oops! Red Dwarf s3e4: Body Swap, BBC 1989
Relax, sir, it’s just a mind probe. Red Dwarf s4e3: Justice, Kryten to Lister, BBC 1991
My mind is so numb and brain-dead I feel like I’ve just attended a three-day seminar entitled The Future of Plumbing. Red Dwarf s8e1: Back in the Red I, Rimmer to Lister, BBC 1999
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that. Wladimir Klitschko
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson
Why should a man’s mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? Thomas Hardy
A sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal, A.D. 60-c.130, Roman satirist, Satires no. 10
The body cannot live without the mind. The Matrix 1999 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano & Gloria Foster & Marcus Chong & ulian Arahanga & Matt Doran & Belinda McClory & Anthony Ray Parker et al, directors Wachowski brothers
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind ... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up. Marcel Proust
Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn’t get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn’t escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison. Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Mary Wollstonecraft
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. Publilius Syrus
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. Aesop
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? Steven Pinker
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind those of the past and future as well as the present. Epicurus
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. William Ellery Channing
I have a mind up here and it’s screaming, Chrissie. Boys from the Blackstuff e3: Shop thy Neighbour, wife to Chrissie, BBC 1982
Man has always believed in a world beyond the physical – with our mind as the gateway. Some say we just have to open it. Strange Rituals s1e4: Altered States, H2 2016
Meditation really can change our body’s physical state. ibid.
Win Hof: they call him the Iceman ... ‘I got attracted to the water with a layer of ice on it ... It’s beautiful ... Inner fire: exercised by monks in the Himalayas ... I could do it too.’ ibid.
He climbed the slopes of Mount Everest wearing only shorts to an altitude of 22,500 ... A new world record for cold endurance ... The Iceman holds thirteen world records. ibid.
What makes a serial killer? What drives them toward sadistic murder? What are the roots of their cold-blooded brutality? … What they all have in common is an unquenchable thirst for murder … they are serial killers. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e1: Serial Killers, Netflix 2018
In the 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation added psychological profiling to their arsenal of tools to capture these killers. ibid.
‘There’s no one course that makes an individual turn into or become criminals.’ ibid. Dr Kostas A Katsavdakis
Brain imaging … Their brains were observed to be different from those of normal people with diminished activities in the areas of the brain that are linked with self-awareness, the processing of emotions and sensitivity to violence. ibid.
Is it nature or nurture? ibid.
How far will a kidnapper go to fulfil his cruel and sadistic desires? … The motivations are complex. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e2: Kidnapping
Most of these kidnappers have some form of paraphilia. ibid.
And even go so far as to have children with the women. ibid.