“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
Albert Einstein
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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 Nhat Hanh
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
Seneca
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
Sigmund Freud
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Carl Jung
“Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“All problems are illusions of the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Aldous Huxley
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don’t realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.”
Eckhart Tolle
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