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| The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. | | Douglas Adams | |
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| The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future | | Joseph Conrad | |
| The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking | | Phaedrus | |
| The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. | | George Moore | |
| The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. | | Seneca | |
| The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers | | Edith Hamilton | |
| The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. | | Rene Descartes | |
| The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. | | Christopher Morley | |
| The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. | | Alfred Adler | |
| The smaller the mind the greater the conceit | | Aesop | |
| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. | | Joseph Addison | |
