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Mind Quotes

An open heart is an open mind.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

About her [India], there is the elusive quality of a legend of long ago; some enchantment seems to have held her mind. She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.

A study of Marx and Lenin produced a powerful effect on my mind and helped me to see history and current affairs in a new light. The long chain of history and of social development appeared to have some meaning, some sequence and the future lost some of its obscurity. The practical achievements of the Soviet Union were also tremendously impressive. Often I disliked or did not understand some development there and it seemed to me to be too closely concerned with the opportunism of the moment or the power politics of the day.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

All I long for is freedom, a taste of the real breathe of life; and I kick, I revolt against the many, the unutterably many constraints to which my mind is still subject... For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything-more than tired.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again-the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (- that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.