Mind Quotes

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

I eat merely to put food out of my mind

N.F. Simpson

The belly rules the mind

Spanish Proverb

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

William Ellery Channing

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

William Ellery Channing

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Publius Syrus

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Milan Kundera

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

William Shakespeare

The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes.

William Havard

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

Thomas Creech

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion

Edmund Burke

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

Henry Fielding

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Edmund Burke

The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky