"The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind." (Ernest Dimnet, "The Art of Thinking", 1928)
"Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality." (Albert Einstein, "Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms" , 1931)
"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst." (Lin Yutang, "The Importance of Living", 1937)
"The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences." (Susanne Langer, "Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art", 1942)
"A single word from you will show the mind inside; a single word and your whole being is exposed. Not even a word is needed; just a gesture and your chattering mind will be there. Even if you are silent, your silence will not reveal anything other than the chattering monkey within." (Osho, "Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing", [talks] 1974)
"The mind cannot be healthy because it can never be whole. Mind is always divided; division is its base."
"The untrapped mind is open enough to see many possibilities, humble enough to learn from anyone and anything, forbearing enough to forgive all, perceptive enough to see things as they really are, and reasonable enough to judge their true value." (Matsushita Konosuke, "Nurturing Dreams: My Path in Life", 1989)
"The mind has power over the body and speech, and therefore any training of body and speech must begin with the mind." (Dalai Lama, "Stages Of Meditation", 2002)
"The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything." (Adyashanti, "The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching", 2009)
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"All outer and inner phenomena are designations of the mind. Except in the mind, they exist nowhere else." (Sambuti)
"All phenomena are mind itself, because appearances are reflections." (Mahasiddha Birwapa)
"An educated mind is useless without a focused will, and dangerous without a loving heart." (Winfried Deijmann)
"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." (Kabir)
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." (Chuang-Tzu)
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." (Benjamin Franklin)
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." (Lao Tzu)
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." (Shunryu Suzuki)
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate." (Rene Descartes)
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." (John Finley)
"Mind alone is the seed of everything." (Saraha)
"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind." (Eric Butterworth)
"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." (David G. Allen)
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." (John M Keynes)
"The helps offered to improve the mind consist in certain ways of thinking which facilitate thinking." (Gottfried W Leibniz)
"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms." (Thich N Hanh)
"The two most powerful agencies in man's nature are reason and mind." (Plutarch)
"The universality of change, when completely understood, is the seeing into the heart of all things, and the mind that thus understands is the mind that truly seeks the way." (Nagarjuna)
"The world is a projection of your mind. Good mind, good world. Bad mind, bad world. No mind, no world." (Swami Parthasarathy)
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them." (Constantin Brâncuși)
"To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders." (Lao Tzu)
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." (Akhenaton)
"When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence." (Sri Aurobindo)
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