Earl Nightingale Quotes

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

I love the human mind.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

To live is to think.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.