I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
—Carl Jung
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
—Charles Darwin
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
—Julius Caesar
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
—Thomas Aquinas
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
—Cicero
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
“No subject will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God.”
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
—Stephen Hawking
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
—Plato
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
—Carl Jung
Freethinkers use their minds without prejudice and fear to understand things that clash with their own customs or beliefs. It’s rare but essential.
—Leo Tolstoy
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
—Heraclitus
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
—Seneca
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
—Aldous Huxley
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.
—Julius Caesar
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle
Every night human beings lay aside the wrappings in which they have enveloped their skin..
We may add that when they go to sleep they carry out an entirely analogous undressing of their minds.
—Sigmund Freud
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
—Seneca
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
—George Washington
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
—Plato
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
—Aristotle