I think, therefore I am. Here are some proverbs and quotes about the mind.
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A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.From latin: Mens sana in corpore sano.
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Better a sick body than an ignorant mind.
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.Richard Dawkins
Children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense.Nicholas Humphrey
Drugs are a bet with the mind.Jim Morrison
Easier to bend the body than the will.
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.Richard Dawkins
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.Vincent van Gogh
I think, therefore I am.René Descartes
Latin: Cogito, ergo sum
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.Mahatma Gandhi
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.René Descartes
It rots the sense in the head!Roald Dahl
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!
Source: Poem: Television
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.Richard Dawkins
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.Henry Rollins
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise and the weather should be little regarded. If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.Thomas Jefferson
Out of sight, out of mind.We tend to forget people or things that we do not see.
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind — I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.Helen Keller
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man
The mind is the effect, not the cause.Daniel Dennett
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.Lord Byron
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.Francis Crick
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.Isaac Bashevis Singer
What kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather?Steven Pinker
Source: How the Mind Works
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots.Daniel Dennett
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.Samuel Ullman
