Mindset Quotes

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.