mind Quotes

“If you're trying to improve your mind, stop it! There's no improving the mind. Look at your heart and gizzard — the brain is in the heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

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“All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

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“Your worst enemy . . . was your own nervous system.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

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“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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