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| Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
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| Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. | | Paul Valery | |
| Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones | | John Ruskin | |
| The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. | | Will Durant | |
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| The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes | | Plato | |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | | Rene Descartes | |
| The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations | | Rene Descartes | |
| The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. | | George Santayana | |
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| The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin | | Alfred Adler | |
| The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me | | W. H. Auden | |
| The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. | | William Blake | |
