Quotes on Stimulating the Mind

What is it that can stimulate the mind? One or two of these quotes may set you thinking…


"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"
Albert Einstein

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
Mortimer Adler

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein

"Of one thing we can be sure. The quality of our life in the future will be determined by the quality of our thinking."
Edward de Bono

"What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous"
Albert Einstein

"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."
Washington Irving

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the rigors of the mind."
Leonardo Da Vinci

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"
Albert Einstein

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible"
George Washington

"Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald<

Famous Quotes on Mind Control

When you are looking for short quotes about mind control they come from all sorts of sources.
These are a couple of favorite little gems:

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."
John Milton

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford

"Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home."
Linda Solegato

"You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden."
Astrid Alauda

"Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment."
Iara Gassen

Quotes About the Mind

This first quote about the mind says it all:

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people"
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place."
Euripides

"Pain of mind is worse than pain of body."
Latin Proverb

"The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering."
Virginia Woolf

"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind."
Arnold Bennett

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing."
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
Charles Dickens

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
Indira Gandhi

"Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind."
John A. Hutchinson

"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."
Elizabeth Kenny

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It's not ways of working that need to become more flexible; it's ways of thinking"
Simon Caulkin

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it."
Mark Twain

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

"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
Malcolm Gladwell

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