Mind did not come from books, but books came from mind.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
To see a wallet and not know what is in it means, seeing, not seeing. Obviously, it is necessary to look twice everywhere: take one into the soul, and the other into the mind.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
“God will never bring to mind again the sin of that man who he has pardoned.”
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity, and without a pure heart, there can be no complete and true consciousness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Understanding the love of Jesus lifts the mind above all fear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The mind is everything; what you think you become.
—Socrates
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
—John Milton
How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.
—George Whitefield
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
—Socrates
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
—George Orwell
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
—Immanuel Kant
I will try to retire at nine or half-past, and every evening give half and hour, or an hour, to secret exercises, endeavouring to raise my mind more, and that it may be more warmed with heavenly fire.
—William Wilberforce
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
—George Orwell
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.
“Instead of saying, I would omit prayer if I could, the regenerate mind cries, I wish I could be always praying.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?
—Laozi
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
—Carl Jung
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
—Franz Kafka
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton
The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
—Georg Hegel
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
—Stephen Hawking
Thoughts weaken the mind.
—Laozi
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions.
—Thomas Aquinas