The Mind Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old the mind quotes, the mind sayings, and the mind proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far. Chinese Proverb
The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things. Walter J. Turner
The mind is a city like London, smoky and populous. Delmore Schwartz
Many minds are like low-grade ores, there is gold in them, but it takes a vast deal of labor to get it out. John Alfred Spender
The mind is like a mechanical instrument that plays a great variety of tunes, but it must play them in succession. William Hazlitt
The mind is like an ocean. The surface layers of the mind function actively while the deeper levels remain silent. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Minds are like parachutes...they only function when open. Lord Thomas
The mind is like a sheet of white paper...the impressions it receives are oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles
The mind is like a slate, one thing gets rubbed out for another. Sam Slick
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. Albert Jay Nook
The mind like any other organism gradually shapes itself to what surrounds it, and resents disturbance in the form which its life has assumed. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down and requires to be constantly wound up. William Hazlitt
A mind without occupation is like a cat without a ball of yarn. Samuel Willoughby Duffield
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them Thomas Merton
A weak mind is like a horoscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. Lord Chesterfield
When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent, Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy nor wise, just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work. Layman P'ang
When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired. You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going. George S. Patton
Free your mind, and your feet will follow. Kevin Nelson