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- Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
- Author Unknown
- To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
- Quintilian
- The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
- Sidney Madwed
- A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
- Fontenelle
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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