Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
John Steinbeck

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin