The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn

The mind is just another muscle.
Ted Turner

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato