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| There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord |
| Thomas Paine |
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| There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public |
| Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty |
| Jean de la Bruyere |
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| We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort |
| Christopher Morley |
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| We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. |
| A. A. Milne |
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| Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim |
| Lord Byron |
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| You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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